URL: https://digitalcollections.hoover.org/objects/39236 Collection Structure Poster collection > Greetings from the dead. People thought at first that what we were going to do was to bring the seventy-two thousand dead men home - crowd the living off the ships with the dead. On the gay Atlantic liners, with their silenced decks, there would be these crowds of quieted faces ... We cannot bring their poor, mangled bodies back and look in their faces ... We greet them with six billion dollars! Item Title Greetings from the dead. People thought at first that what we were going to do was to bring the seventy-two thousand dead men home - crowd the living off the ships with the dead. On the gay Atlantic liners, with their silenced decks, there would be these crowds of quieted faces ... We cannot bring their poor, mangled bodies back and look in their faces ... We greet them with six billion dollars! Collection Title Poster collection Date Created 1917/1918? Description Text only. Subject(s) Debts, Public United States. Department of the Treasury Bonds World War, 1914-1918 Finance War Loan Organization United States Soldiers Language(s) English Country of Origin United States Country of Origin United States Dimensions Overall: 22 x 10 in. (55.9 x 25.4 cm) Format Poster Medium political posters Color black and white Color black and white Hoover ID Poster US 5686 Record Number XX343.29612 Collection Guide https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt829015km Rights No known restrictions.