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Subject: GREAT WORDS
From: FastmetalBDF@aol.com
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 13:15:52 EDT
Subj:   Fwd:  important message
Date:   4/19/00 11:25:06 PM Pacific Daylight Time
From:   OHFASTONE
To: FastmetalBDF

This was an interesting post to the Triumphs list, it's by a Canadian.

In a message dated 4/19/0 5:45:27 PM, chusmann@execpc.com wrote:

<<
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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