Army Propoganda

[BobbyBubby]

Posted: 11/27/05 at 6:23pm

Has anyone else noticed the intense amounts of "Join the Army and become a real man" propoganda commercials lately? They're on all the time, and I think the messages they send are really misleading. They appeal only to men, even though women can join the army, and they seem to be saying you aren't a real man unless you're in the Army. Ugh.

[Beergoggles]

Posted: 11/27/05 at 8:00pm

DULCE ET DECORUM EST

Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs
And towards our distant rest began to trudge.
Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots
But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind;
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots
Of tired, outstripped5 Five-Nines that dropped behind.

Gas! Gas! Quick, boys! – An ecstasy of fumbling,
Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time;
But someone still was yelling out and stumbling,
And flound'ring like a man in fire or lime . . .
Dim, through the misty panes and thick green light,
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.
In all my dreams, before my helpless sight,
He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.

If in some smothering dreams you too could pace
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin;
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie; Dulce et Decorum est
Pro patria mori.

Wilfred Owen

Updated On: 11/27/05 at 08:00 PM

[my2cents]

Posted: 11/27/05 at 8:57pm

Lately? That has been armys propaganda since day one. Nothing new about it. Plus they are just using soceitys definition of men, and I am gay and I don't see a problem with it.

[Mamie]

Posted: 11/27/05 at 10:41pm

Exactly what I was thinking. That's always been the army's message.

[BobbyBubby]

Posted: 11/27/05 at 11:27pm

Just seems like they've been promoting it more as of late.

[Calvin]

Posted: 11/28/05 at 12:13am

They've always been desperate and aggressive. I'll never forget how much the recruiters harassed me in high school. Yes, fey little me -- and I was, like, 30 pounds underweight in high school. Even after I graduated, they kept calling my parents' house looking for me for four years.