Friday, July 3, 2009

US Army


Illustrator Flagg's Most Famous Poster


There is a recruiter's office in easy walking distance of our apartment and the other day I stopped to chat a bit with the recruiter--a very polite and soft-spoken California man who has been in the army many years--almost retirement age, he said.

He gave me the above recruiting poster--after all these years, still a potent ad!

This recruiter's office is in a small "mallito"-- we call it-- with a grocery store and a beauty salon and a fast-food place and like that.

You may wonder what in the world an enlistment poster is doing in a blog called "ahimsaland"--but everything is part of "ahimsa"--and there is, more than ever, a need for
good soldiers.

And besides, in this depressed economy, who else is hiring kids just out of high school?

There will always be a need, I suppose, for police and warriors--there are messy, hard and dangerous duties to perform even in peaceful times--and it is still true that there is a time for all things. Everything in this world comes and goes--peace as well as war.

So I thought it would be appropriate even here in this peaceful ahimsaland blog on the eve of the Fourth of July, to honor the voluntary military caste of The United States of America.


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