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Written by Megan Justice
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 This is a poster released for the anti-Vietnam war campaign in the late 1960s and early 1970s. It depicts Uncle Sam as a skull, because so many soldiers who joined the armed forces were dying overseas for a cause many Americans did not support. The poster is considered historical ephemera because it was produced to prove a point immediately, and now has no real political meaning because the war in Vietnam is over. There is a great deal of anti-Vietnam propaganda, especially in music of the time. Posters such as this were produced as an expression of how people felt at the time, but after the end of the war the poster does not hold the same urgency or meaning.
By Megan Justice
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