============================================================ Join memolink.com and get FREE gift certificates to Wal*Mart, Target, Best Buy, Olive Garden and more! http://click.topica.com/caaac5Rb1ddNBb2HgmNa/Memolink ============================================================ Thank you, as an American who is often at odds with our policies and politicians, I appreciate hearing this. I am still and always an American. Those are my people buried in that rubble. Those are my children crying for their parents. Those are my rescue workers that are risking their lives. Those are my heros that are now putting the pieces back together. I am an American. coyote -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 11:42 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Native_American] FW: [Tradition_OF_The_Redroad] TRIBUTE TO THE UNITED STATES fr ============================================================ Join memolink.com and get FREE gift certificates to Wal*Mart, Target, Best Buy, Olive Garden and more! http://click.topica.com/caaac5Rb1ddNBb2m2YSa/Memolink ============================================================ > [Original Message] > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 9/11/2001 11:36:42 PM > Subject: [Tradition_OF_The_Redroad] TRIBUTE TO THE UNITED STATES from Canadian > > From: Karryn > TRIBUTE TO THE UNITED STATES from Canadian.. > 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? > 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! Wear it proudly! > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > At this moment, one of the darkest > in the U.S. history , I hope no one minds me sending this editorial > by Gordon Sinclair... it seemed > appropriate to send it. > > > > > Yahoo! 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