Tell that to the Marines...

First World War recruitment poster one of 5 designed for the U.S. Marines by artists working for the Division of Pictorial Publicity. Designed by renowned American illustrator James Montgomery Flagg it features a full length portrait of an angry civilian man, starting to take off his civilian clothing,standing in front of a newspaper he has just thrown down. On the ground to his left is his hat. Clearly visible the headline reads ' Huns kill women and children'. Enraged by the news from Belgium the man is off to join the Marines. Flagg was allegedly inspired by the headlines of August 1914 when Germany invaded Belgium. His poster inspired a patriotic poet, N.A. Jennings, whose poem ' The appeal of a poster' was published in the New York Herald soon after the poster was published.