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Upon reading this some may disagree.
I hope not, because what you are about to read is fact. I encourage you
to take just a moment out of your busy days and nights, (sometimes they
run together in this business) and think about just how fortunate we are
to live in this fine country of ours.
TRIBUTE TO THE UNITED STATES
This, from a Canadian newspaper, is worth sharing. America: The Good Neighbor.
Gordon Sinclair, a Canadian television commentator, gave widespread but
only partial news coverage recently to a remarkable editorial broadcast
from Toronto. 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 d**ned 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!
Wear it proudly!!
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, but a lot of countries don't stop
and think that they would not have there independence if it was not for
our country "The Good Lo USA".
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, I SURE HOPE
THAT A LOT MORE READ IT SOON.
SENT IN BY
Jim S.
and Dorris H |