ABSTRACT
The home front had to be trained to join its individual forces with those of the nation to constitute the second line of the armed forces. Fundamentally, the home front needed to be convinced that everything it did was for a precise war objective and nothing could be neglected if it was to have a role in the victory. Thus the persuasive goal of many messages was to involve and infuse the home front with patriotic spirit, reminding it of the final objective of all its tiring work in the fields and factories as well as its indispensable collaboration in the production of arms and ammunition. Reassuming aspects of the educative strategy, the New York illustrator Wallace Morgan (1875-1948) effectively sensitized the public with a black and white picture which showed a soldier seated in a trench looking towards the observers while enjoying a hot drink.
