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1. Fw: I'm proud to be an
American From:
"GESA BRINKS" <gesaeqfx@ivic.net>
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1 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.