wow, brought tears to my eyes......
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Stephenie Hamilton
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----- Original Message -----
From: Howie Hamlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: CF-Community <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 10:01 PM
Subject: FYI: Report from Canada re WTC bombing
> TRIBUTE TO THE UNITED STATES
>
> 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, war mongering 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."
>
>
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