Posted by GLnSD on September 14, 2001 at 08:29:26:
This is very fitting considering all circumstances
surrounding this great
country lately. I wanted to share this with as many
people as possible and
give everyone else the same sense of pride I felt
from reading this.
God Bless.
TRIBUTE TO THE UNITED STATES
This, from a Canadian newspaper, no less, 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!
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. Maybe
each of you can send this
to at least one person and they might send it to one
of their friends until
this letter is sent to every person on the web. I
am just a single
American
that has read this,
I SURE HOPE THAT A LOT MORE READ IT SOON.