Tribute to The United States from Canada
Wanda Mallett
witchwanda2002 at yahoo.com
Thu Sep 13 01:12:03 UTC 2001
Deb sent me this wonderful email that I wanted to also
share with this wonderful group,who are like family,
of adults and mature young adults too!
Wanda
From: "Deb Martino" <dmartino at mediaone.net> | Block
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To: "Debi Weber" <webers1993 at mediaone.net>, "Wanda
Mallett" <witchwanda2002 at yahoo.com>, "Donna St. Jean"
<Dlstjean at aol.com>
Subject: Fw: Something worth reading at a time like
this!
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 16:35:39 -0400
TRIBUTE TO THE UNITED STATES
This, from a Canadian newspaper, 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? 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!
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.
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. ----------
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