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Re: [WW] OT America under Attack Letter



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
rook111@pernet.net
 
----- 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!


+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

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.