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Posted: 9/12/2001 6:39:34 PM EDT
Thought this was appropriate for the times we are in. Hope you all enjoy it.

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 France 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
   technocracy, and you get radios. You talk about
   German technocracy, and you get automobiles.
   You talk about American technocracy, 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...


Link Posted: 9/12/2001 6:40:19 PM EDT
[#1]
...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!
    Wear it proudly!!

    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 SOON.



[b]BusMaster007[/b]
Link Posted: 9/12/2001 6:43:58 PM EDT
[#2]
BTT
Link Posted: 9/12/2001 7:07:15 PM EDT
[#3]
I'll second that BTT.
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