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Re: important message

To: "Ernest Husmann" <chusmann@execpc.com>, <team-thicko@autox.team.net>, "Triumph list" <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: important message
From: "Joe Donovan" <jdonovan@mediaone.net>
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 20:48:45 -0400charset="iso-8859-1"
What a bunch of bullshit.
-----Original Message-----
From: Ernest Husmann <chusmann@execpc.com>
To: team-thicko@autox.team.net <team-thicko@autox.team.net>; Triumph list
<triumphs@autox.team.net>
Date: Wednesday, April 19, 2000 8:45 PM
Subject: important message


>
>I received this today and I think it bears repeating.  For those who may
>not be from the land of Stars and Stripes, no direct criticism intended.
>
>> > > > > >         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.  Stand proud, America!
>> > > >
>> > > >
>> > > > > > 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.
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > >         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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