Do your bit. Eat no wheat cereals. Leave nothing on your plate. The Connecticut State Council of Defense weighs in with a picture of mother and daughter, sitting against what looks to be a blown-up brick house. In the distance, under the splintered tree, three crosses.
Propaganda is most fascinating after the fact.
History gives us the necessary distancing so we can look at the pictures and wonder how anyone in their right mind could have accepted that which was being palmed off on them as the truth. But conflict builds its own force. It becomes a moral as well as a mortal battle. Four years of war produced so much anger that it seemed that nothing could stop it. It was a juggernaut that ran on and on, and ran France, Germany, and England ragged in the process.