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The Search for Uncle Sam

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New Hampshire meat-packer to national symbol - Alton Ketchum recounts the rise and rise of Uncle Sam Wilson.

J. M. Flagg's 1917 poster, based on the British Lord Kitchener poster of three years earlier, was used to recruit soldiers for WW1 and WW2.The whole world knows what Uncle Sam stands for, but until recent years less was known about his lineage than about the earlier symbols of America.

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