This poster plays on the public’s need to believe that their own behavior might improve the outcome for their loved ones abroad and puts the burden on the viewer to live up to the standards of the “battle-wise infantryman” who knows how to self-censor. In addition to the many posters he produced during World War II, Jes Wilhelm Schlaikjer painted the War Department’s official portraits of such military leaders as Dwight D. Eisenhower, Douglas MacArthur, and George S. Patton.