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Subject: FW: [CBRS4ME] Tribute to American
From: John Christophersen <email@hidden>
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 09:49:07 -0500

> I found this on the net....and thank this Canadian, more than I can
> say, today....
>
> TRIBUTE TO AMERICA
>
> The following, from a Canadian newspaper, is worth sharing.
>
> Its subject is 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!
>
> --
> Sue Cone and the Katmai Chesapeakes
> CH & Am/Can OTCH Abby WD - you'll always walk with me.
> OTCH Libby UDX JH, OTCH Sam UDX WD, and Ty CDX
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>
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