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Jeff in Cincinnati Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-18-03 09:59 AM
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Ken Fearings "Ad"
A good war poem that I was reminded of by another thread here at DU.

"Ad"

WANTED: Men
Millions of men are WANTED AT ONCE in a big field;
NEW, TREMENDOUS, THRILLING, GREAT.
If you've been a figure in the chamber of horrors,
If you've ever escaped from a psychiatric ward,
If you thrill at the thought of throwing poison into wells, have heavenly visions of people, by the thousands, dying in flames--
YOU ARE THE VERY MAN WE WANT
We mean business and our business is YOU
WANTED: A race of brand-new men.
Apply: Middle Europe;
No skill needed;
No ambition required; no brains wanted and no character allowed;
TAKE A PERMANENT JOB IN THE COMING PROFESSION
Wages: DEATH.

As the text suggests, this was written in the late 1930's as Hitler was coming to power. Still relevant today?
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