Re: [T3] ** Attention ** Not T3 related. But please read

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From: "Erick Williams" <onet34me@yahoo.com>
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Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 1:55 PM
Subject: [T3] ** Attention ** Not T3 related. But please read


> TRIBUTE TO 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? 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!
>                       Wear it proudly!!
> 
>      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. 
> 
>                 Eiric
> 
> Forwarded by --- Erick the daddy --- friend of Eiric
> 
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