are the only words on the poster, even though these words do not seem like much, they got many people to sign up for the army (Lecture Notes). All of the items that were shipped to Europe for our military were marked US for United States; the soldiers began thinking of the marking US as Uncle Sam. Samuel Wilson, in essence, became the human embodiment of the United States, which was the goal of James Montgomery Flagg (Lecture Notes). If the people thought of the country as a person instead of so many people and the government it makes it much simpler to agree to fight for the cause. This poster continued to be used in future wars and was very widely used in the Vietnam War to encourage Americans to sign up for the draft. Although the propaganda was good for making people support the war, it was encouraging the people to have anti-German feelings; German Americans felt the effects of these feelings.
             The anti-German feelings that brewed in the US were sometimes unjustly directed at not the soldiers in Europe but the German Americans living in ou
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