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In a message dated 09/12/2001 6:04:32 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Elle3379

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Maybe this can help others to see what Americans are like!

 

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> I hope you all feel as proud as I felt to be an AMERICAN after

> reading this.

>

> MVW

> > > >>> 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!

>

> 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 SOON.

>

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