Re: American Attitudes

[Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten]

"K.Feete" wrote somewhere in her response to John's ode to America:

> Believe it or not, I'm also pretty proud of America. I think we're an
> innovative people; I think we're tough; and I think we're perfectionists,
> always pushing to go just a little further and be a little better.

May I cut in here. Americans are pushing a little further and being a little
better usually after others have shown that it is possible. They are persistent
and succesfull at that. I must give them that. As for putting a man on the moon.
Well if Germans hadn't worked on the rocket engine, I doubt the Americans would
have gone anywhere near space. They 'borrowed' a lot of the scientists,
scientific knowledge and scientific research from Germany after WWII as did the
Russians btw.

Sonja