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title: Army Day poster, This Is Your Army (Lao poster distributed in Vientiane)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/army-day-poster-this-is-your-army-lao-1958/
description: 'A Lao-language Army Day poster built from about a dozen photographs: jeeps and a tank on parade, parachutes and aircraft overhead.'
section: Collection
---

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[![Army Day poster, This Is Your Army, 1958 US poster: A Lao-language Army Day poster built from about a dozen photographs](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/army-day-poster-this-is-your-army-lao-1958.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/army-day-poster-this-is-your-army-lao-1958.jpg)

# Army Day poster, This Is Your Army (Lao poster distributed in Vientiane)

A Lao-language Army Day poster built from about a dozen photographs: jeeps and a tank on parade, parachutes and aircraft overhead, marching soldiers with colours, and a uniformed officer on a reviewing stand. The headline calls the army 'your army' and its foot line calls it the keeper of peace and fighter for freedom. The tell is glittering generalities, with the parade imagery lending the army's ceremony to those abstractions.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

Original (Lao) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
ນີ້ແມ່ນກອງທັບຂອງທ່ານ

ຜູ້ຮັກສາຄວາມສງົບແລະຕໍ່ສູ້ເພື່ອເສລີພາບຂອງທ່ານ

[small Lao caption under the photographs, about three lines: illegible]
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
This is your army

The keeper of your peace and fighter for your freedom

[small caption: illegible]
```

Lao script read by eye from the scan; the three-line photograph caption is too small to read reliably.

[← Wall News poster No. 56, Baghdad Pact members (Farsi, distributed in Tehran)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/wall-news-poster-56-baghdad-pact-members-farsi-1958/) [Don't you louse up my Act" →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/berryman-dont-you-louse-up-my-act-1958/)

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