--- title: You Can Help Bring Them Back url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/you-can-help-bring-them-back-1965-1969/ description: A Chieu Hoi poster (code SP-1932) addressed to the families and neighbours of Viet Cong fighters asks them to persuade relatives to return section: Collection --- 1. [Home](https://propagandaarchive.org/) 2. [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) 3. You Can Help Bring Them Back [![You Can Help Bring Them Back, 1966 US poster: A Chieu Hoi poster (code SP-1932) addressed to the families and neighbours](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/you-can-help-bring-them-back-1965-1969.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/you-can-help-bring-them-back-1965-1969.jpg) # You Can Help Bring Them Back A Chieu Hoi poster (code SP-1932) addressed to the families and neighbours of Viet Cong fighters asks them to persuade relatives to return to the government side. Photographs of children under a thatched roof, a woman carrying rice sheaves, a crowd of waving ralliers at a centre and a school building carry captions that fathers, husbands and sons are needed at home. The appeal moves the decision from the fighter to his family, using children and farm life as its imagery. ## Propaganda techniques used in this poster [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/) ## Text on the object Original (Vietnamese) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` ĐỒNG BÀO CÓ THỂ GIÚP HỌ TRỞ VỀ Có khi chỉ cần một lời khuyên là đồng bào có thể giúp những người bà con của mình trở về chính nghĩa. Nhiều gia đình đã được đoàn tụ và đang sống hạnh phúc. Chương trình Chiêu hồi đã mở rộng cửa dẫn đến một tương lai tươi sáng. ĐỒNG BÀO HÃY GIÚP BÀ CON MÌNH TRỞ VỀ. Những em này cần có những người cha nuôi dạy. Hãy kêu gọi những người cha trở về Đàn bà sức lực bao nhiêu mà lo lắng việc đồng áng và việc gia đình? Hãy kêu gọi chồng con trở về để tiếp tay xây dựng gia đình Những người này đã tìm được lẽ sống. Họ đã hồi chánh và hiện đang trú ngụ tại trung tâm chiêu hồi. Họ sung sướng chờ đoàn tụ với gia đình một ngày gần đây Nhà trường và gia đình là nơi con trẻ cần được giáo huấn. Chúng cần được cha mẹ săn sóc SP-1932 ``` English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader) ``` COMPATRIOTS CAN HELP THEM RETURN Sometimes all it takes is a word of advice for you, compatriots, to help your relatives return to the just cause. Many families have been reunited and are living happily. The Chieu Hoi programme has opened wide the door to a bright future. COMPATRIOTS, HELP YOUR RELATIVES RETURN. These children need fathers to raise and teach them. Call on the fathers to return How much strength does a woman have, to worry about the fieldwork and the family affairs? Call on your husbands and sons to return to help build up the family These people have found a reason to live. They have rallied and are now staying at a Chieu Hoi center. They are happily waiting to be reunited with their families one day soon School and family are where children need to be taught. They need to be cared for by their parents SP-1932 ``` [← Chiến thắng của cuộc hành quân "Xây Dựng 33" tại Tầu-Ô và Lộc-Ninh, Bình-Long (Victory of Operation "Xay Dung 33" at Tau O and Loc Ninh, Binh Long)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/xay-dung-33-tau-o-loc-ninh-1966/) [Ceremony Presenting a House and Market Stall to Two Slain Hamlet Chiefs' Families, Gò Vấp →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gia-dinh-house-and-stall-ceremony-go-vap-1966/) ## More propaganda examples that use 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) - [Clay cylinder with the Ehulhul inscription of Nabonidus, king of Babylon, describing work on three temples](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/cylinder-nabonidus-ehulhul-inscription-555bce/) (Neo Babylonian Empire · 0000 · Transfer) - [Seated limestone statue of Hatshepsut as king, with feminine royal titles on the throne, reassembled from fragments broken up at Deir el-Bahri](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/hatshepsut-seated-statue-limestone-met-1458bce/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Transfer, Testimonial) - [Glazed-brick panel with a striding lion, from Babylon (reign of Nebuchadnezzar II)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/ishtar-gate-panel-striding-lion-nebuchadnezzar-ii-604bce/) (Neo Babylonian Empire · 0000 · Transfer) - [Limestone relief block of Ramesses II wearing the White Crown, a jubilee relief from his temple at Herakleopolis](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/jubilee-relief-ramesses-ii-herakleopolis-met-05-4-256/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Transfer) - [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. - [Gypsum alabaster slab inscribed in cuneiform, from Nimrud (Kalhu), reign of Ashurnasirpal II](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/nimrud-slab-ashurnasirpal-ii-inscription-883bce/) (Neo Assyrian Empire · 0000 · Transfer, Glittering generalities) - [Egyptian alabaster jar inscribed with the name of Xerxes the Great in four languages (Old Persian, Elamite, Babylonian, Egyptian), 486 to 466 BCE](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/xerxes-jar-four-languages-486bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Transfer)