[CH] Stand Proud America!

Pecos B (pecos_b@hotmail.com)
Thu, 13 Sep 2001 18:37:10 -0500 

>Subject: America: The Good Neighbor
>
>This is from a Canadian newspaper and 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 broadcast.
>
>"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.
>
>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.
>
>Stand proud, America!

(author unknown)

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