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This is an excellent article that I've shared with my fellow IT staff members - makes me proud to be an American.
Carolyn Ramsey
Texoma HealthCare System
Denison, Tx
MIS Support
903-416-4175
-----Original Message-----
From: Lefkovics, William [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 4:13 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: NewYork Terrorist Attack
That is a famous article by one of Canada's best journalists.
William
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From: Bartolini [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 2:15 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: NewYork Terrorist Attack
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!
----- Original Message -----
From: Luke Brumbaugh
To: NT System Admin Issues
Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 3:47 PM
Subject: RE: NewYork Terrorist Attack
Thank you, I beleive it was another Canadian who stood up and said How America (United States) was always the first to help other countries in distress, but who helps them when they were in a crisis. It's nice to have FRIENDS up north.
I applaud you sir.
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From: Mal Sasalu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 3:39 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: NewYork Terrorist Attack
Murray, believe me they will (US). I am a Canadian saying this. If you knew what happens around the world you wouldn't say this. Any natural catastrophe or otherwise in any part of the world, America is the first one to respond. If you don't know ask people who were torn by earthquakes in Turkey, India, Mexico - - -. Don't get into hair splitting exercise.
Mal
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From: Murray Binette [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 1:11 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: NewYork Terrorist Attack
I find it hard to beleive that the US would give a rats ass if something similar happened in Toronto or Edmonton.
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From: Paul Armstrong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 12:13 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: NewYork Terrorist Attack
How is this relevant? Well, I know some people who work in the WTC who are sys admins and I haven't been able to contact them since the crisis. Obviously there are others who are sys admins who probably lost there lives in this situation. I take it you know noone in NYC and probably dont care. I guess I wouldn't be wrong if the roles were reversed and this happened in your home town and you were caught in the middle of this thing and I didn't care. If you dont like the posts relating to this event, you could always filter them or simply unsubscribe, who cares since you have no sympathy for what has happened today! If this situation gets larger than what it already is and it starts to effect you, you will then find out the relevance to this list!!
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