I second and third this!
leslie/The Power of Sound
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dirk Kahl" <dirk@radiodisturbance.com>
To: <dirk@radiodisturbance.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 4:10 PM
Subject: FW: FW: America - The Good Neighbor
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> I needed to hear this right now, maybe you do too.
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> Subject: A TRIBUTE TO THE UNITED STATES
> We should appreciate this one. This is from a Canadian newspaper,
> it's worth sharing.
>
> TRIBUTE TO THE UNITED STATES
>
> America: The Good Neighbor.
> Widespread but only partial news coverage was given to a remarkable
> Editorial broadcast from Toronto by Gordon Sinclair, a Canadian
> television
> commentator.
> What follows is the full text of his 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 Mom & Pop at home to spend here. When the railways of
> France,
> Germany and India were breaking down due to 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 5,000 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 seem to be blamed for
> everything,
> and don't 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.
>
> Makes you proud to live here doesn't it??
>
> THANKS,
> ANTHONY VELEZIS
> SPECIAL INVESTIGATIONS UNIT
> (204)-6639
>
>
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