In his paintings, Norman Rockwell helped the war effort in many ways. He was used to painting America’s fighting men as boy scouts, now he saw soldiers as civilians in uniforms and war itself was everyone’s fight. “I don’t like to do posters,” Rockwell said, “They’re all propaganda… I don’t like to do pictures which glorify killing in a good way.”(Gillis, 97) He began innocently with Willie Gillis, a quiet …showed first 75 words of 2091 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2091 total…such as Peace Corps (John F. Kennedy’s Legacy), in which JFK appears. He also painted many pictures about space age and astronauts. “There was a change in the thought climate in America brought on by scientific advance, the atom bomb, two world wars, and Mr. Freud and psychology…. Now I am Wildly excited about painting contemporary subjects…. pictures about civil rights, astronauts, Peace Corps, and the poverty program. It is wonderful,” said Rockwell (NR, 48)