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title: Remain with the colors, be a modern minute man
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/remain-with-the-colors-modern-minute-man-1938/
description: 'Color recruiting sheet: a uniformed soldier with rifle stands before a large flag while a pale blue Revolutionary-era minuteman fades in behind him.'
section: Collection
---

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[![Remain with the colors, be a modern minute man, 1938 US poster: Color recruiting sheet](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/remain-with-the-colors-modern-minute-man-1938.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/remain-with-the-colors-modern-minute-man-1938.jpg)

# Remain with the colors, be a modern minute man

Color recruiting sheet: a uniformed soldier with rifle stands before a large flag while a pale blue Revolutionary-era minuteman fades in behind him. 'Be a modern minute man' ties the present enlistee to the 1775 militia, a transfer of that tradition's prestige; the text box gives the Reserve terms.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

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

```
REMAIN WITH The COLORS
Be A Modern Minute Man

If you are leaving the Active Service, or were Honorably Discharged from the REGULAR ARMY--
Are under Thirty-six Years of Age, and are Physically Qualified, it will pay you to Enlist in the REGULAR ARMY RESERVE

ENLIST IN THE REGULAR-ARMY-RESERVE

U. S. Army Recruiting Officer

[signature: illegible, lower centre of the picture]
[imprint: PC-21--RPB--12-20-38--50M]
```

[← Regulars and ex-regulars](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/regulars-and-ex-regulars-army-reserve-1938/) [Öffentliches Eintopfessen zugunsten des WHW (Worms) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/whw-eintopfessen-worms-1938/)

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