--- title: They're the reason we're in Vietnam url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/nscvv-theyre-the-reason-were-in-vietnam-1965/ description: 'A poster headed "They''re the reason we''re in Vietnam" shows one photograph: a small barefoot child in sandals and a patterned shirt stands between the…' section: Collection --- [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) [![They're the reason we're in Vietnam](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/nscvv-theyre-the-reason-were-in-vietnam-1965.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/nscvv-theyre-the-reason-were-in-vietnam-1965.jpg) # They're the reason we're in Vietnam A poster headed "They're the reason we're in Vietnam" shows one photograph: a small barefoot child in sandals and a patterned shirt stands between the legs and boots of US soldiers, while a second child waits in the background. One image of a child stands in for the whole case for the war. The poster gives no place, date, numbers or other reason. ## Text on the object Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` THEY'RE THE REASON WE'RE IN VIETNAM Distributed By: National Student Committee For Victory In Vietnam 214 North Clay Avenue St. Louis, Missouri 63122 ``` The distributor line is very small; the street number and ZIP code may be off by a digit. A signature at the lower right of the photograph is [illegible]. [← Vietnam Fights and Builds, No. 6 (1965), page 5: 'International Aid Day celebrated in Saigon', 22 June 1965](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/international-aid-day-saigon-vietnam-fights-and-builds-no6-1965/) [Melati bedonbal-e shah-e khod (A Nation Following Its Shah): Pahlavi government poster →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/pro-shah-nation-follows-shah-1965/) ## Using the same techniques - [Fragments of the Abydos king list from Ramesses II's temple, in the British Museum: rows of royal cartouches](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/abydos-king-list-ramesses-ii-temple-british-museum/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Card stacking, Transfer) - [Behistun (Bisotun) rock relief and trilingual inscription of Darius I: the king, two attendants and the bound rebel leaders beneath the winged figure of Ahuramazda](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/behistun-relief-darius-and-rebels-521bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Card stacking, Name-calling, Testimonial). Content note: Shows bound captives before the king, and the inscription records the mutilation and public execution of rebel leaders, as the king's own account. - [Tomb of Darius I at Naqsh-e Rustam: the king in relief beside his inscription DNa, c. 490 BCE](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/dna-inscription-darius-i-naqsh-e-rustam-490bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Testimonial, Card stacking) - [Line drawing of the Great Kadesh battle relief on the walls of the Ramesseum, from Breasted's History of Egypt](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/kadesh-relief-ramesseum-breasted-drawing-1275bce/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Card stacking, Transfer). Content note: A drawing of an Egyptian royal battle relief showing Hittite soldiers and horses killed and drowned, as the king's monument presented the battle; it is a one-sided image made by the winning side's own account. - [Persepolis, Apadana staircase relief: a figure with an animal from a procession of delegations, early fifth century BCE](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/persepolis-apadana-delegate-relief-500bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Card stacking, Manufactured consensus) - [Alabaster relief, Assyrian troops storming a citadel, from Nineveh (reign of Sennacherib)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/relief-sennacherib-storming-citadel-nineveh-704bce/) (Neo Assyrian Empire · 0000 · Card stacking). Content note: An Assyrian palace relief of troops storming a fortified city, with a file of figures below; Assyrian royal reliefs and texts record killing, mutilation and deportation, shown as carved, with the historical context and scholarly dispute on the regime page. - [Colour lithograph of the Latin text of the Res Gestae Divi Augusti on the wall of the temple of Roma and Augustus at Ancyra, with the heading in large letters (Perrot, Guillaume and Delbet, 1872)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/lithograph-res-gestae-ancyra-heading-0014/) (Roman Empire · 0014 · Card stacking, Glittering generalities) - [Silver denarius of Vespasian, reverse IVDAEA with a trophy of arms and a seated mourning woman](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/denarius-vespasian-judaea-capta-0070/) (Roman Empire · 0070 · Card stacking). Content note: A Roman victory coin showing a mourning female figure as the personification of the conquered province of Judaea after the Roman suppression of the Jewish revolt; shown as struck, with the historical context on the regime page.