Does America Need a Hero?

This message comes from Progressive Insurance. Progressive makes it easy to see if you could save when you bundle your home and auto policies. Try it at progressive.com. Progressive Casualty Insurance Company and affiliates. Potential savings will vary. Not available in all states. While most of you were playing ball in the sand lots, this war started. Adolf Hitler's all out attack on Poland makes the long dreaded European war assertiveness. Thing. I pledge allegiance to the flag of The United States Of America. Steve Rogers was a scrawny kid growing up in New York. And to the republic for which it stands. World War two was going on. The United States had not yet been involved. Adolf Hitler's mechanized forces are racing toward Paris as French resistance collapses. There was a lot of unrest going on in America of what was happening over in Europe and across the globe. We heard that a thing called the Nazi party had taken over. He wanted to do what he could. A chance to help the army air forces throw a punch that'll knock Hitler and Tojo bow legged. He tried to enlist, but was rejected for all types of purposes. One nation, indivisible. His size to having asthma, flat feet With liberty. He just couldn't be enlisted. And justice And justice for all. But that wasn't gonna deter him. Eventually, this caught the eye of the US military. And so they were going through, their own experiments at the time to develop, what is known as the super soldier. They approached Steve Rogers and said, listen. You have the heart. Would you be willing to to try to do this experiment, for your government? And, of course, he said, absolutely. Don't be afraid, son. You're about to become one of America's saviors. Calmly. The young man allows himself to be inoculated with strange, seething liquid. There. It is done. He's changing. We shall call you captain America. First issue of captain America to million seller. As the ruthless warmongers of Europe focus their eyes on a peace loving America, the youth of our country heed the call to arm or defend. Lots and lots of people are reading comics. But great as the danger of foreign attack is the threat of invasion from within. Certainly, once you get into the war, tens of thousands of issues of comics are going out to GIs around the world. Death to the dark of democracy. Come on out, you stunk. East and west, our nation is menaced as never before. And inside the Captain America comic books is this blonde haired, blue eyed, white, all American super soldier. He wears a red, white, and blue costume that looks like a reimagined American flag, a big star on his chest, stripes tight against bulging muscles engineered by the US government. His power is his superhuman strength. He carries no weapon, only a shield. And he fights only when he must. He's not someone who has …