Questions: Examine Reagan's word choice below. Which conveys the greatest intensity of feeling? Ladies and gentlemen, I'd planned to speak to you tonight to report on the state the Union, but the events of earlier today have led me to change those plans. oday is a day for mourning and remembering. Nancy and I are pained to the core by he tragedy of the shutlle Challenger. We know we share this pain with all of the teople of our country. This is truly a national loss. 2) Nineteen years ago, almost to the day, we lost three astronauts in a terrible accident on the ground. But weve never lost an astronaut in flight; we've never had a tragedy like this. And perhaps we've forgotten the courage it took for the crew of the shutile. But they, the Challenger Seven, were aware of the dangers, but overcame them and did their jobs briliantly. We mourn seven heroes: Michael Smith, Dick Scobee, Judith Resnik, Ronald McNair, Elison Onizuka, Gregory Jarvis, and Christa McAulifle. We mourn their loss as a nation together. (3) For the lamilies of the seven, we cannot bear, as you do, the full impact of this tragedy. But we leel the loss, and we're thinking about you so very much. Your loved ones. were daring and brave, and they had that special grace, that speclal spirit that says. "Give me a chaliengo, and i7I meet it with joy." They had a hunger to explore the universe and discover its truths. They wished to serve, and they did. They served all of us. We've grown used to wonders in this century it's hard to dazzle us. But for 25 years the United States space program has been doing just that.

Transcript text: Examine Reagan's word choice below. Which conveys the greatest intensity of feeling? Ladies and gentlemen, I'd planned to speak to you tonight to report on the state the Union, but the events of earlier today have led me to change those plans. oday is a day for mourning and remembering. Nancy and I are pained to the core by he tragedy of the shutlle Challenger. We know we share this pain with all of the teople of our country. This is truly a national loss. 2) Nineteen years ago, almost to the day, we lost three astronauts in a terrible accident on the ground. But weve never lost an astronaut in flight; we've never had a tragedy like this. And perhaps we've forgotten the courage it took for the crew of the shutile. But they, the Challenger Seven, were aware of the dangers, but overcame them and did their jobs briliantly. We mourn seven heroes: Michael Smith, Dick Scobee, Judith Resnik, Ronald McNair, Elison Onizuka, Gregory Jarvis, and Christa McAulifle. We mourn their loss as a nation together. (3) For the lamilies of the seven, we cannot bear, as you do, the full impact of this tragedy. But we leel the loss, and we're thinking about you so very much. Your loved ones. were daring and brave, and they had that special grace, that speclal spirit that says. "Give me a chaliengo, and i7I meet it with joy." They had a hunger to explore the universe and discover its truths. They wished to serve, and they did. They served all of us. We've grown used to wonders in this century it's hard to dazzle us. But for 25 years the United States space program has been doing just that.