Re: FW: America - The Good Neighbor

From: Leslie N. Shill (icehouse@redshift.com)
Date: Thu Sep 13 2001 - 02:17:57 CEST

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    I second and third this!

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    ----- 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

    >
    > -
    > I needed to hear this right now, maybe you do too.
    >
    >
    >
    > 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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