Looking at "Cut the Line" I began to see the sheer work and emotion that the effect of the war had on people at home. In the picture, the crowd seems to be somewhat distraught at the ship leaving the shores of the United States. The American flag is waving in the background with the men cutting the lines of the ship for it to prepare for setting sail. The ship is carrying thousands of American men over to Europe to fight in a war that distraught thousands of people. It seems this picture illustrates the frustration that people had with having their family leaving to fight a war that was thousands of miles away. People were war-weary by 1944. World War I had just occurred a few decades earlier and people were not in a position to want to fight another war. Looking at the past, even after the war people were damaged mentally if not physically by the war for the rest of their lives. You can see war having lasting effects on people even today with the war in Iraq. Soldiers come home facing Post Traumatic Stress Disorder as well as other injuries both physical and mental. War only leads to pain, and that pain can last much longer than after the last bomb is dropped.
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