Call to Arms! not so much...

Last semester in my rhetorical criticism class I read a really interesting article about how the "We Can Do It" poster of WWII fame was not as famous as most of us think. Now maybe some of you knew this already but I did not and was fascinated by what people perceived as the truth about Rosie the Riveter.  the first myth about Rosie was that it was done by Norman Rockwell for the Saturday Evening Post but it was actually done by J. Howard Miller for Westinghouse as a way to motivate people already in the work force at Westinghouse. It was not a "call to arms" for the women of America and it was only seen during the month of February in 1943.

There is a lot of information on Wikipedia as well and it seems correct from what I remember of the article. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Can_Do_It! If you would like to see a few more pieces of J. Howard Miller's you can look here http://americangallery.wordpress.com/category/miller-j-howard/