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Date: Friday, January 05, 2001 9:39 AM
Subject: Fw: USA
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Subject: Fw: USA
Be the change you want to see in the
world.
Tim Farmer
Greensboro
DSO
336-273-6353(ext. 15)
336-273-1049(fax)
tim.farmer@trane.com
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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 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.
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 SOON.
GOD BLESS AMERICA
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