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.
- Date
- 1942
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Office of War Information, OWI Poster No. 14 (artist signed Allen Saalburg)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Commemorate
- Themes
- War and the military, Home front
- Event
- World War II
- Techniques
- Transfer
- Regime
- Roosevelt administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division (POS - WWII - US .H53.J3 1942), retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work: Office of War Information poster)
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division (digital id cph.3g01666). Library of Congress rights statement: 'No known restrictions on publication.'
Text on the object
...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.
