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| Editoral comment from Canada |
by askanison |
2001-09-13 07:39:05 |
I wanted to share this with everyone. I received this in my email this morning and thought that people might like to read this.
I know that I'm a newcomer to this message board and have only started posting since this tragedy, but I just wanted to thank Illiad for running UF. The last several days have been extremely difficult and we as a people will persevere.
> TRIBUTE TO AMERICA
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> The following, from a Canadian newspaper, is worth sharing.
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> Its subject is "America: The Good Neighbor"
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> 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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> "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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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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? If so, why don't they fly them? 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 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.
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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 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."
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> Stand proud, America!
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> This is one of the best editorials that I have ever read or heard
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
who has read this, but I SURE HOPE THAT A LOT MORE READ IT SOON.
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Sure it's a real editorial. | by raindog | 2001-09-13 07:55:40 |
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June 5, 1973 | by gulopine | 2006-11-19 12:55:59 |
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Hmmm . . . . | by askanison | 2001-09-13 08:01:39 |
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There's a lot of e-mail chain things going around | by BlurOfSerenity | 2001-09-13 08:03:13 |
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No worries there | by askanison | 2001-09-13 08:08:18 |
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Fine by me | by gulopine | 2001-09-13 08:12:52 |
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