Give us this day... our sons: December 31, 1971
Black poster with a small snapshot of a soldier standing with three civilians, captioned "Give us this day... our sons" and dated "December 31, 1971". The tell is the adapted prayer: the words of the petition "Give us this day our daily bread" are altered to frame the withdrawal date as a family's request.
- Date
- 1971
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- Committee to Help Unsell the War (New York)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Movement
- Regime
- Nixon Administration
- Leader
- Richard Nixon
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- War and the military, Home front
- Event
- Vietnam War
- Techniques
- Transfer
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Library of Congress, retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- U.S. publication without copyright notice; LoC: no known restrictions on publication
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Text on the object
Give us this day... our sons DECEMBER 31, 1971 HELP UNSELL THE WAR Box 903, FDR Station, New York, New York 10022
Read from a 640 px LoC scan; the footer is small and read with some uncertainty.
