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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=402171" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Red Tails.</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sixty seven years since the war, <br>Never heard of them or the story before.<br>A well kept secret of history, <br>The airmen of Tuskegee.<br>They were the 'Red Tails' fighter squadron, <br>An author stated, &quot;As secret as the Atom Bomb.&quot; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The U.S set up an all 'Negro' squadron in secret, <br>Total segregation, the 'experiment' had to be separate.<br>Scepticism was rife, it was expected to fail, <br>Racism was blowing in full sail.<br>&quot;They are not capable to fly, let alone fight, <br>Morally and mentally inferior, they have no bite.&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Training was complete, preparation done, <br>Reality to meet, prove the doubters wrong.<br>Despatched to the front in Europe, Italy, <br>To their all 'Afro-American' base at Romatelli.<br>Pilots, cooks, mechanics, commanders on the base, <br>All had a 'non-white' face.<br>Orders and briefings, tactics and formations, <br>Courage and bravery on the missions.<br>Equally brave as the others, like their 'white brothers.'<br>Escorting the bombers over enemy territory.<br>Fulfilling their duty against tyranny.<br>They had earned a reputation, <br>Bomber crews requested their protection.<br>One of their kind shot down, out he had bailed, <br>All his fellow pilots, to see they had failed.<br>They all thought 'presumed dead', gone, <br>One of many lost fighting for freedom. <br>However he didn't perish, never died, <br>His Mustang 51, upside down, he 'fell' out and survived! <br> <br>Captured and imprisoned for remainder of the war, <br>Liberated and on a ship, home he headed for.<br>Sailing past the statue of liberty, <br>A welcome and proud sight to see.<br>Crowds and flag waving on the dock side, <br>Cheering and shouts filled him with pride.<br>From the ship he was about to disembark, <br>Then reality hit him like a stab in the heart. <br>There were to be no gratitude or thanks, <br>As he approached the gang planks.<br>Pride and patriotism was suddenly not there, <br>Kicked in the teeth, hard to bare.<br>The sign stated, 'Whites to the left, Blacks to the right.'<br> <br>He had returned back home to the 'old fight', <br>Back to the racism, where life was prejudiced, <br>To 'land of the free' where for a period he had missed.<br>332, fighter group squadron proved their metal, <br>112, of the the Nazi foes fate they did 'settle'! <br>The war had finished, their missions had ended.<br>All bar 27, bombers they had defended.<br>Fighting for freedom,66, were lost of their own, <br>Survivors still had to fight for freedom when they got home! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">18/10/12</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Guy+Lipmore">Guy Lipmore</a><div class=q>
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Never heard of them or the story before.
A well kept secret of history, 
The airmen of Tuskegee.
They were the 'Red Tails' fighter squadron, 
An author stated, &quot;As secret as the Atom Bomb.&quot; 

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