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R: Senegalese veteran A: Historians in the future F: Diary T: Hatred towards the French and the lifestyles during the war.

July 17th 1938 Dear Diary,

French are not the type of people who you should trust. According to my comrades, France and Britain made an alliance for the support of each other against Germany. However, it sank into corruption because France did not keep their promises to reinforce their army when Britain needed such help.

Last Saturday my left arm got hit by a bullet while fighting. The nurse said it is best to dismember my arm. I wasn’t surprised at all of this fact. I know at least twenty of soldiers who have gotten amputated and have replaced their limbs with artificial body parts. Some of those who got their faces damaged even received plastic surgery practice. Compared to those soldiers, my left arm is nothing. I am right-handed anyways.

Nowadays I can relate a lot to “To the Senegalese Sharpshooters Dead for France” poem by Leopold Sedar Sendhor. Why should we, Senegalese, have to fight for France, and lose innumerable people dying for no reason? Not only Senegal, but also India is colonized by Britain. Just because they had imperialized us and formed Indochina with north and east Africa, it doesn’t mean they can just force us to fight at the front of the deadly trenches. All people need and deserve rights and proper treatments. And we want our identities to be recognized to the world; to have remembrance in future year’s education. It surely lacks those things right now. Allah had created all of us equal. Let the French leaders sink into hell.

I certainly hope the historians in the future find this diary and make upright assumptions of the World War and reveal what happened to Senegalese, Indians and more. I truly yearn for my diary to become an indispensable resource. That is my only wish before I die during this war.