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title: Bạn còn đợi gì mà không trở về với gia-đình? (What Are You Still Waiting For? Return to Your Family)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/ban-con-doi-gi-tro-ve-voi-gia-dinh-1965/
description: 'A Vietnamese-language poster (code SP 811) shows a hunched, ragged Viet Cong soldier with a rifle and grenade, and two thought bubbles: a burning.'
section: Collection
---

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[![Bạn còn đợi gì mà không trở về với gia-đình?, 1965 US poster: A Vietnamese-language poster (code SP 811) shows a hunched](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/ban-con-doi-gi-tro-ve-voi-gia-dinh-1965.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/ban-con-doi-gi-tro-ve-voi-gia-dinh-1965.jpg)

# Bạn còn đợi gì mà không trở về với gia-đình? (What Are You Still Waiting For? Return to Your Family)

A Vietnamese-language poster (code SP 811) shows a hunched, ragged Viet Cong soldier with a rifle and grenade, and two thought bubbles: a burning, bombed 'secret zone' with a body on the ground, and a waiting mother, wife and child. The text asks, 'What are you still waiting for, that you do not return to your family?' Death and destruction on one side and home on the other are set against each other to move the soldier to leave.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Fear appeal](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/fear-appeal/)

## Text on the object

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

```
MẬT-KHU TAN NÁT

GIA ĐÌNH ĐỢI CHỜ

BẠN CÒN ĐỢI GÌ MÀ KHÔNG
TRỞ VỀ VỚI GIA-ĐÌNH ?

SP 811
```

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

```
SECRET ZONE SHATTERED

FAMILY WAITING

WHAT ARE YOU STILL WAITING FOR, THAT YOU DO NOT
RETURN TO YOUR FAMILY?

SP 811
```

[← Ba Canh Hamlet: Women Carry Stones to Build Ditches](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/ba-canh-hamlet-women-carry-stones-to-build-ditches-1965-1969/) [Bằng chứng cụ thể tại Vũng-Rô (Concrete Proof at Vung Ro), USIA photo-sheet →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/bang-chung-cu-the-tai-vung-ro-usia-1965/)

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