we have to remember. this piece was written in 1973. most of the world is with us right now. for the 1st time in history the us national anthem was played instead of the brit national anthem at the changing of the guard at buckingham palace. no other anthem has EVER been played, ours was.
the world is behind us with few exceptions. will they help us recover with anything except well wishes? what did we ever do about the IRA bombings? in fact the IRA is financed by the Irish in Boston & NY. what do Brits feel about that? what should they feel? what would you feel? i have a friend, a Brit, who says she has been in pubs in NY where the hat was passed for IRA contributions. this is wrong & should be stopped. how must the Brits feel? isn't that US supporting the IRA? it happens in public & no one there does anything but put $$ in the hat to be turned into bombs to kill British children.even iraq has condemned the attack. now i agree that they damn well better! they are not totally stupid after all. they know the result of supporting it the bombing. but we won't be fooled by their words. their time will come. but 1st we have to beef up our military. remember folks they have nuc's. we have to be able to hit their nuc bearing missiles while still over iraq air space. our military is so grossly inept (i was in ground mobile forces folks, i know far more than you could imagine.) we couldn't handle having to deal w/ what they could do. we need to reopen some of those bases that we closed. we need to put the military infrastructure that we once had back in place. but not what we had in the 90's. or the 80's, 70's, or whatever. we need what we had at the end of W.W.II. no one messed w/ us & a US passport was your ticket out of trouble. no one would dare mess w/ us then.
but i am comforted by the fact that the passengers of flight UA93 seem to have taken the situation in hand & prevented the terrorists from taking "their plane" to it's target. this has given us all an example to follow should we ever be on a plane that is hijacked. think of it.... a plane full of people against 3 - 5 guys w/ tiny knives. those seats come up folks & would be a great way to stop any knife.
this was sent to me by a friend. actually several friends have sent it. i looked it up & found that this is not actually the original text. i enclose a link to that text & the text itself. i agree, we don't get enough thanks for what we do. until this incident & the subsequent circulation of this message i hadn't realized how much we do for the world.
I also agree that this needs to be circulated far & wide. send it to all you know.
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"LET'S BE PERSONAL" Broadcast June 5, 1973 CFRB, Toronto, Ontario
Topic: "The Americans"
The United States dollar took another pounding on German, French and British exchanges this morning, hitting the lowest point ever known in West Germany. It has declined there by 41% since 1971 and this Canadian thinks it is time to speak up for the Americans as the most generous and possibly the least-appreciated people in all the earth.
As long as sixty years ago, when I first started to read newspapers, I read of floods on the Yellow River and the Yangtse. Who rushed in with men and money to help? The Americans did.
They have helped control floods on the Nile, the Amazon, the Ganges and the Niger. Today, the rich bottom land of the Misssissippi is under water and no foreign land has sent a dollar to help. 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 those countries is today paying even the interest on its remaining debts to the United States.
When the franc 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 distant cities are hit by earthquakes, it is the United States that hurries into help... Managua Nicaragua is one of the most recent examples. So far this spring, 59 American communities have been flattened by tornadoes. Nobody has helped.
The Marshall Plan .. the Truman Policy .. all pumped billions upon billions of dollars into discouraged countries. Now, newspapers in those countries are writing about the decadent war-mongering Americans.
I'd like to see one of those countries that is gloating over the erosion of the United States dollar build its own airplanes.
Come on... let's hear it! Does any other country in the world have a plane to equal the Boeing Jumbo Jet, the Lockheed Tristar or the Douglas 107? If so, why don't they fly them? Why do all international lines except Russia fly American planes? Why does no other land on earth even consider putting a man or women 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 everyone to look at. Even the draft dodgers are not pursued and hounded. They are here on our streets, most of them ... unless they are breaking Canadian laws .. are getting American dollars from Ma and Pa at home to spend here.
When the Americans get out of this bind ... as they will... who could blame them if they said 'the hell with the rest of the world'. Let someone else buy the Israel bonds, Let someone else build or repair foreign dams or design foreign buildings that won't shake apart in earthquakes.
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 to you 5,000 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 neighbours have faced it alone and I am one Canadian who is damned tired of hearing them 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 these. But there are many smug, self-righteous Canadians. And finally, the American Red Cross was told at its 48th Annual meeting in New Orleans this morning that it was broke.
This year's disasters .. with the year less than half-over� has taken it all and nobody...but nobody... has helped.
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Theresa Verhoef wrote:
this email was from back when China had our plane, I just thought it was something worth reading again now that some of the middle eastern countries and leaders feel we got what we deserved due to "US policies" we have always had good intentions, heres some reminders...............the best part is this speech wasnt even from an american
TRIBUTE TO THE UNITED STATES
This, from a Canadian newspaper, it's 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, 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 DC-10? 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!
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 5,000 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.
