Over There, World War II. Dear Fellow Americans, I write this letter Hoping times will be better When this war Is through. I'm a Tan-skinned Yank Driving a tank. I ask, WILL V-DAY BE ME-DAY, TOO? I wear a U. S. uniform. I've done the enemy much harm, I've driven back The Germans and the Japs, From Burma to the Rhine. On every battle line, I've dropped defeat Into the Fascists' laps. I am a Negro American 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. I've seen my buddy lying Where he fell. I've watched him dying I promised him that I would try To make our land a land Where his son could be a man-- And there'd be no Jim Crow birds Left in our sky. So this is what I want to know: When we see Victory's glow, Will you still let old Jim Crow Hold me back? When all those foreign folks who've waited-- Italians, Chinese, Danes--are liberated. Will I still be ill-fated Because I'm 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 comrades 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 I've helped this world to save, Shall I still be color's slave? Or will Victory change Your antiquated views? You can't say I didn't fight To smash the Fascists' might. You can't say I wasn't with you in each battle. As a soldier, and a friend. When this war comes 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? That's all I ask of you. When we lay the guns away To celebrate Our Victory Day WILL V-DAY BE ME-DAY, TOO? That's what I want to know. Sincerely, GI Joe.

This poem talks about a black U.S. soldier in WW2 and he talks about if he will ever get his v-day hes out there fighting in the war and he says hes out there seeing his friends die and how he a is a regular person in the war but he states that when the war ends will he get his v-day to? or will he be just another black man fighting to survive and once again not be loved by the country he once served what he trying to say is that will any black people get any love after the war?

Expository Essay

I chose to write about WWI and i just want to share all that happened during that war that shouldent of happened the world started in 1914 the assanation of the archduke francis ferdinand the archduke was on a trip to serbia with his wife and at the time he had beef with serbia and then when he made the trip to make peace with serbia but serbians didnt want anything to do with him so they tried to kill him with a home made bomb but they failed. when i mean they failed they through the bomb at his car and they missed and they blew up another car and the archduke is a nice guy he was trying to see if the people were okay so he followed the ambulance to the hospital on his way over there a 19 year old nationalist shot and killed the archduke and his wife. thats how WWI startedand as soon as that happened all these other countries started to jump in such as germany, russia, serbia, england and france and so on and so on.but this WWI really affected someones mind people started to turn gay because they felt lonlely and they wanted someone to love them . Many of the guns or i should say weapons were the poison gas, barbwire, tanks, and rifles and later on they created the machine gun. but the really cool thing i learned is that the frankestien monster was actually symbolized this one soildiers boyfriend that died and got caught on the barbwire the guy looked at his boyfriend day after day rottening turning green and stuff so when he got out the war he created the frankenstien monster in memory of his fallen lover. Many of the soildiers that were part of WWI were shell shocked they turned mentally ill they have flashbacks of all the disaters that happened. But see this war could of been prevented because the ruler of germany, france and england were all cousins but they had beef with each other and they started too fight. when the war was done all the contries that were involed in the war aggreed on a peace treaty and blamed the war on germany!!!!!!!!!!...... thats how later on WW2 started.