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Fw: [Enduranceriders] Digest Number 1726



 
 Anne George Saddlery   www.vtc.net/~ageorge  
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      1. Fw: I'm proud to be an American
           From: "GESA BRINKS" <gesaeqfx@ivic.net>


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   Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 22:35:07 -0700
   From: "GESA BRINKS" <gesaeqfx@ivic.net>
Subject: Fw: I'm proud to be an American


gesa 'n clovis 'n sky
----- : I'm proud to be an American


Got this and had to pass it on a very interesting editorial

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!

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.



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