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title: 'Your War Savings Pledge: Our Boys Make Good Their Pledge, Are You Keeping Yours?'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/your-war-savings-pledge-1918/
description: Uncle Sam stands between a uniformed soldier with a raised hand and a civilian holding a W.S.S. pledge card, an arm around each.
section: Collection
---

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# Your War Savings Pledge: Our Boys Make Good Their Pledge, Are You Keeping Yours?

Uncle Sam stands between a uniformed soldier with a raised hand and a civilian holding a W.S.S. pledge card, an arm around each. The text asks whether the civilian is keeping a pledge as the soldiers have kept theirs. The tell is the matched pair: the soldier's oath is set beside the buyer's stamp pledge, so saving is framed as a share in what 'our boys' are already doing.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

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

## Text on the object

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

```
Your War
Savings
Pledge

Our boys make good
their pledge
Are you keeping
yours?

[label] W.S.S.
WAR SAVINGS STAMPS
ISSUED BY THE
UNITED STATES
GOVERNMENT

[on the paper held by the civilian: W.S.S.]
```

The label text at lower left is small and partly obscured by glare; it is read as above and matches NARA's title.

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