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title: Remember Dec. 7th!
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/remember-dec-7th-owi-1942/
description: A tattered American flag at half-mast in front of black smoke, under a line from Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, '...we here highly resolve that these dead…
section: Collection
---

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[![Remember Dec. 7th!](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/remember-dec-7th-owi-1942.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/remember-dec-7th-owi-1942.jpg)

# Remember Dec. 7th!

A tattered American flag at half-mast in front of black smoke, under a line from Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, '...we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain...', and the words 'Remember Dec. 7th!'. The poster borrows the prestige and mourning of the 1863 speech and pastes them onto the 1941 attack; no enemy is shown.

## Text on the object

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

```
...we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain...

REMEMBER DEC. 7th!

OWI Poster No. 14.  Additional copies may be obtained upon request from the Division of Public Inquiries, Office of War Information, Washington, D.C.

U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE [illegible]
```

The artist's script signature at lower right reads 'Allen Saalburg'. The imprint after 'U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE' is too small to read in this scan.

[← 'Put the squeeze on the Japanese' (Australian industrial-effort poster, General Motors Holden)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/put-the-squeeze-on-the-japanese-australia-1942/) [Remember Pearl Harbor. Enlist Now! United States Coast Guard →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/remember-pearl-harbor-coast-guard-1942/)

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