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RE: [GWL]: [primulas] TRIBUTE TO THE UNITED STATES.doc


Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 6:20 PM
Subject: [primulas] TRIBUTE TO THE UNITED STATES.doc


> TRIBUTE TO THE UNITED STATES
> Cheri
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>   YES, IT MAY SEEM A BIT ARROGANT, BUT IN THIS TIME OF DISMAY IT
STRENGTHENED ME TO REMEMBER WHY I WAS PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN.
>
>   CHERI
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>   TRIBUTE TO THE UNITED STATES
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>   This, from a Canadian newspaper, no less, is worth sharing.
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>   America: The Good Neighbor.
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>   Widespread but only partial news coverage was given
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>   recently to a remarkable editorial broadcast from
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>   Toronto by Gordon Sinclair, a Canadian television
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>   commentator. What follows is the full text of his
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>   trenchant remarks as printed in the Congressional
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>   Record:
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>   "This Canadian thinks it is time to speak up for the
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>   Americans as the most generous and possibly the least
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>   appreciated people on all the earth.
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>   Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and
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>   Italy were lifted out of the debris of war by the
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>   Americans who poured in billions of dollars and
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>   forgave other billions in debts. None of these
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>   countries is today paying even the interest on its
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>   remaining debts to the United States.
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>   When France was in danger of collapsing in 1956, it
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>   was the Americans who propped it up, and their reward
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>   was to be insulted and swindled on the streets of
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>   Paris. I was there. I saw it.
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>   When earthquakes hit distant cities, it is the United
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>   States that hurries in to help. This spring, 59
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>   American communities were flattened by tornadoes.
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>   Nobody helped.
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>   The Marshall Plan and the Truman Policy pumped
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>   billions of dollars into discouraged countries. Now
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>   newspapers in those countries are writing about the
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>   decadent, warmongering Americans.
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>   I'd like to see just one of those countries that is
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>   gloating over the erosion of the United States dollar
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>   build its own airplane. Does any other country in the
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>   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
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>   don't they fly them? Why do all the International
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>   lines except Russia fly American Planes?
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>   Why does no other land on earth even consider putting
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>   a man or woman on the moon? You talk about Japanese
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>   technocracy, and you get radios. You talk about German
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>   technocracy, and you get automobiles. You talk about
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>   American technocracy, and you find men on the moon -
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>   not once, but several times and safely home again.
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>   You talk about scandals, and the Americans put theirs
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>   right in the store window for everybody to look at.
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>   Even their draft-dodgers are not pursued and hounded.
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>   They are here on our streets, and most of them, unless
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>   they are breaking Canadian laws, are getting American
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>   dollars from ma and pa at home to spend here.
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>   When the railways of France, Germany and India were
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>   breaking down through age, it was the Americans who
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>   rebuilt them. When the Pennsylvania Railroad and the
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>   New York Central went broke, nobody loaned them an
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>   old caboose. Both are still broke.
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>   I can name you 5000 times when the Americans raced to
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>   the help of other people in trouble. Can you name me
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>   even one time when someone else raced to the Americans
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>   in trouble? I don't think there was outside help even
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>   during the San Francisco earthquake.
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>   Our neighbors have faced it alone, and I'm one
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>   Canadian who is damned tired of hearing them get
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>   kicked around. They will come out of this thing with
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>   their flag high. And when they do, they are entitled
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>   to thumb their nose at the lands that are gloating
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>   over their present troubles. I hope Canada is not one
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>   of those."
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>   Stand proud, America!
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>          +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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>   This is one of the best editorials that I have ever
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>   read regarding the United States. It is nice that one
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>   man realizes it. I only wish that the rest of the
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>   world would realize it. We are always blamed for
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>   everything, and never even get a thank you for the
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>   things we do.
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>   Maybe each of you can send this to at least one person
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>   and they might send it to one of their friends until this letter
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>   is sent to every person on the web.
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>   I am just a single
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>   American that has read this,
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>   I SURE HOPE THAT A LOT MORE READ IT SOON.
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