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Thank you Shane for sharing this. I was very
disappointed because of some of the things I had read last night from the people
and nations I thought were our friends. This makes me at least forgive the
ignorance of some. I have done as you request (actually I was doing it
before I read your suggestion, and have sent a copy to every address in My
book).
God Bless America.
David Broussard
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 2:49
PM
Subject: Re: [WW] OT America under Attack
Letter
Here's why we're proud
to be Americans, last administration excepted, as
written by one of your
own. . .
Shane
TRIBUTE TO THE UNITED STATES
This, from a Canadian newspaper, is worth sharing.
America:
The Good Neighbor.
Widespread but only partial news coverage was given
recently to a
remarkable
editorial broadcast from Toronto by
Gordon Sinclair, a Canadian
television
commentator. What
follows is the full text of his trenchant remarks as
printed in the
Congressional Record:
"This Canadian thinks it is time to speak up
for the Americans as the most
generous and possibly the least
appreciated people on all the earth.
Germany, Japan and, to a lesser
extent, Britain and Italy were lifted out of
the debris of war by the
Americans who poured in billions of dollars and
forgave other billions
in debts. None of these countries is today paying
even the interest on
its remaining debts to the United States.
When the franc was in danger
of collapsing in 1956, it was the Americans
who
propped it up,
and their reward was to be insulted and swindled on the
streets of
Paris. I was there. I saw it. When earthquakes hit distant
cities, it
is the United States that hurries in to help. This spring, 59
American
communities were flattened by tornadoes. Nobody helped. The
Marshall
Plan and the Truman Policy pumped billions of dollars into
discouraged
countries. Now newspapers in those countries are writing about
the
decadent, warmongering Americans. I'd like to see just one of those
countries that is gloating over the erosion of the United States
dollar
build its own airplane. Does any other country in the world
have a plane to
equal the Boeing Jumbo Jet,the Lockheed Tri-Star, or
the Douglas DC10?
If
so, why don't they fly them? Why do all
the international lines except
Russia fly American Planes? Why
does no other land on earth even
consider
putting a man or
woman on the moon? You talk about Japanese technology,
and
you
get radios. You talk about German technology, and you get
automobiles.
You talk about American technology, and you find men on the moon -not
once,
but several times - and safely home again. You
talk about scandals, and
the
Americans put theirs right in the
store window for everybody to look at
.
Even their
draft-dodgers are not pursued and hounded. They are here on our
streets, and most of them, unless they are breaking Canadian laws, are
getting American dollars from ma and pa at home to spend here. When
the
railways of France, Germany and India were breaking down through
age, it was
the Americans who rebuilt them. When the Pennsylvania
Railroad and the New
York Central went broke, nobody loaned them an
old caboose. Both are still
broke. I can name you 5000 times when the
Americans raced to the help of
other people in trouble. Can you name
me even one time when someone else
raced to the Americans in trouble?
I don't think there was outside help even
during the San Francisco
earthquake. Our neighbors have faced it alone, and
I'm one Canadian
who is damned tired of hearing them get kicked around.
They
will come out of this thing with their flag high. And when they do,
they
are
entitled to thumb their nose at the lands that are
gloating over their
present troubles. I hope Canada is not one of
those."
Stand proud, America!
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This is
one of the best editorials that I have ever read regarding the
United
States. It is nice that one man realizes it. I only wish that the
rest
of the world would realize it. We are always blamed for everything, and
never even get a thank you for the things we do.
I would hope
that each of you would send this to as many people as you can
and
emphasize that they should send it to as many of their friends until
this letter is sent to every person on the web. I am just a single
American
that has read this, I SURE HOPE THAT A LOT MORE READ IT
TOO.
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