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On 9/13/2001
BradS
wrote in from
(208.219.nnn.nnn)
this may not be the place, but considering what's happened in the last few days, I thought it was appropriate. Read this letter I found in my company's e-mail:
A 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?
> >>>
> >>> 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!
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