Re:

Being a Canadian I agree whole heartly  Bill VanIderstine

At 01:22 PM 9/17/01 , you wrote:
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>TRIBUTE TO THE UNITED STATES
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>        This, from a Canadian newspaper, it's worth sharing.
>       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:
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>        America: The Good Neighbor.
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>       "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.
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>       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.
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>       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.
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>       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?
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>       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.
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>       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.
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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 and the
>        New York Central went broke, nobody loaned them an
>        old caboose. Both are still broke.
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>        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.
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>       Our neighbors have faced it alone, and I'm one
>       Canadian who is darn 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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>       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 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.
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>       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,
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>       I SURE HOPE THAT A LOT MORE  READ IT SOON.
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Thanks,
Bill Van Iderstine
P.E.I. Record Holder @ 862 lbs.
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