-----Original Message-----
From:   Bruce MacDonald
Sent:   Wednesday, September 12, 2001 2:45 PM
To:       Everyone
Subject:        FW: Tribute to the UNITED STATES!





This, from a Canadian newspaper, is
worth sharing.
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> America: The Good Neighbor.
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> Widespread but only partial news
coverage was given recently to a
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> remarkable editorial broadcast from
Toronto by Gordon Sinclair, a Canadian
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> television Commentator. What follows
is the full text of his trenchant
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> remarks as printed in the
Congressional Record:
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>
> "This Canadian thinks it is time to
speak up for the Americans as the most
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> generous and possibly the least
appreciated people on all the earth.
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> Germany, Japan and, to a lesser
extent, Britain and Italy were lifted
out
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> of the debris of war by the Americans
who poured in billions of dollars and
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> forgave other billions in debts.  None
of these countries is today paying
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> even the interest on its remaining
debts to the United States.
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> When France was in danger of
collapsing in 1956,  it was the
Americans who
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> propped it up, and their reward was to
be insulted and swindled on the
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> streets of Paris. I was there. I saw
it.
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> When earthquakes hit distant cities,
it is the United States that hurries
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> in to help.  This spring, 59 American
communities
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> were flattened by tornadoes.  Nobody
helped.  The Marshall Plan and the
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> Truman Policy pumped billions of
dollars into discouraged countries.  Now

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> newspapers in those countries are
writing about the decadent, warmongering

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> Americans.
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> I'd like to see just one of those
countries that is gloating over the
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> erosion of the United States dollar
build its own airplane.  Does any other
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> country in the world have a plane to
equal the Boeing Jumbo Jet, the
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> Lockheed Tri-Star, or the Douglas
DC10?  If so, why don't they fly them?
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> Why do all the International lines
except Russia fly American Planes?
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>
> Why does no other land on earth even
consider putting a man or woman on the
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> moon? You talk about Japanese
technocracy, and you get radios.  You
talk
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> about German technocracy, and you get
automobiles. You talk about American
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> technocracy, and you find men on the
moon -not once, but several times -
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> and safely home again.
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> You talk about scandals, and the
Americans put theirs right in the store
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> window for everybody to look at. Even
their draft-dodgers are not pursued
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> and hounded.  They are here on our
streets, and most of them, unless they
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> are breaking Canadian laws, are
getting American dollars from ma and pa
at
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> home to spend here.
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> When the railways of France, Germany
and India were breaking down through
>
> age, it was the Americans who rebuilt
them. When the Pennsylvania Railroad
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> and the New York Central went broke,
nobody loaned them an old caboose.
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> Both are still broke.
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> I can name you 5000 times when the
Americans raced to the help of other
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> people in trouble.  Can you name me
even one time when someone else raced to

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> the Americans in trouble?  I don't
think there was outside help even
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> during the San Francisco earthquake.
Our neighbors have faced it alone, and
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> I'm one Canadian who is damned tired
of hearing them get kicked around.
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> They will come out of this thing with
their flag high.  And when they do,
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> they are entitled to thumb their nose
at the lands that are gloating over
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> their present troubles. I hope Canada
is not one of those."
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>
> Stand proud, America!  Wear it
proudly!!
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>
> 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
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> rest of the world would realize it. We
are always blamed for everything,
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> and never even get a thank you for the
things we do.  I would hope that
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> each of you would send this to as many
people as you can and emphasize that
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> they should send it to as many of
their friends until this letter is sent
to
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> every person on the web.  I am just a
single American that has read this.
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> I SURE HOPE THAT A LOT MORE READ IT
SOON.
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>
> God Bless
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>
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>

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