This was emailed to me today. It comes from a Canadian News writer.

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!

I hope steve m & Kuiper don't read this, it might ruin their day! [;)]

didint the french help us during the revolution war or am i mistaken other then that i cant think of anything ....im sure somebody tried to help us but who..

Burn-

Yes, the French did help in the War for Independence.  Maybe the last intelligent thing they did!

Yes, the French aided us in the Revolutionary War. I'm no historian, but I suspect it was just an extension of their continual spat with the British, and possibly an attempt at further expansion of the French empire.

I know that offers of help were made when we experienced natural disasters and I think all have been cordially refused.

btt

The French were trying to expand their territory south from Canada. They hoped that by helping us defeat the British that they would then be dealing with a weaker enemy and also a people who felt they owed them something. After the revolutionary war the French banded several Indian tribes together to make war against us.

Makes me proud to be an American!

Makes you wonder what those canucks are up to.

Please DO NOT MENTION EUROPE in this thread.
We don't want Kuiper locking it !    [:D]

This is very old, it was written in the 60's. Gordon Sinclair has been dead for several years.

Awesome article.  It would be refreshing if more foreigners were as astute.  I've been alot of places w/ the military, & seem to be welcomed pretty much everywhere (except France, of course,) but I might could give up a weapon or two if it would guarantee that this point of view should become contagious.  Might just make our little world a better place.

P*ss on Canada! G*d D*mn Mexico lite!