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This is so uplifting and appropriate for today, even though it was originally broadcast by Gordon Sinclair (a Canadian radio broadcaster) nearly 30 years ago (1973)!
See also this website: <http://sinclair.quarterman.org/sinclair/who/gordon.html<; <TRIBUTE TO THE UNITED STATES < < <The Americans < <"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. < _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp _____ Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : <http://explorer.msn.com<;
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