Fw: SOOO TRUE!!!!!

["GESA BRINKS" <gesaeqfx@pe.net>]

>>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.
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