Will V-Day Be Me-Day Too?

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    <strong>Will V-Day Be Me-Day Too?</strong>

    Over There,

    World War II.

    Dear Fellow Americ藏书网ans,

    I write this <bdi>.9９lｉｂ.</bdi>letter

    Hoping times will be better

    When this war

    Is through.

    Im a Tan-skinned Yank

    Driving a tank.

    I ask, WILL V-DAY

    BE ME-DAY, TOO?

    I wear a U. S. uniform.

    Ive dohe enemy much harm,

    Ive driven back

    The Germans and the Japs,

    From Burma to the Rhine.

    On every battle line,

    Ive dropped defeat

    Into the Fascists laps.

    I am a Negro Ameri

    Out to defend my land

    Army, Navy, Air Corps--

    I am there.

    I take munitions through,

    I fight--or stevedore, too.

    I face death the same as you do

    Everywhere.

    Ive seen my buddy ly<dfn></dfn>ing

    Where he fell.

    Ive watched him dying

    I promised him that I would try

    To make our land a land

    Where his son could be a man--

    And thered be no Jim Crow birds

    Left in our sky.

    So this is what I want to know:

    When we see Victlow,

    Will you still let old Jim Crow

    Hold me back?

    When all those fn folks whove waited--

    Italians, ese, Danes--are liberated.

    Will I still be ill-fated

    Because Im black?

    Here in my own, my native land,

    Will the Jim Crow laws still stand?

    Will Dixie lynch me still

    When I return?

    Or will you rades in arms

    From the factories and the farms,

    Have learned what this war

    Was fought for us to learn?

    When I take off my uniform,

    Will I be safe from harm--

    Or will you do me

    As the Germans did the Jews?

    When Ive <mark>..</mark>helped this world to save,

    Shall I still be colors slave?

    Or will Victory ge

    Your antiquated views?

    You t say I didnt fight

    To smash the Fascists might.

    You t say I wasnt with you

    in each battle.

    As a soldier, and a friend.

    When this war es to an end,

    Will you herd me in a Jim Crow car

    Like cattle?

    Or will you stand up like a man

    At home and take your stand

    For Democracy?

    Thats all I ask of you.

    When we lay the guns away

    To celebrate

    Our Victory Day

    WILL V-DAY BE ME-DAY, TOO?

    Thats what I want to know.

    Sincerely,

    GI Joe.

    <strong>Langston Hughes</strong>

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