TRIBUTE TO THE UNITED STATES
 
To My visitors. I have had this on my website for sometime now...probably since the begining of the creation of my site...which was over three years ago. I am sure that you have received this in your email numerous times since the tragedy on September 11,2001, stating that this was written for that cause. I am sorry but this was actually written back sometime in the 70's and anyone saying that it was written after that is mistaken. I put this on my site due to the Nature of the content...basically it is as it states...a Tribute to the United States. Please do not send me emails arguing this letter or wanting me to "post a reply" to this on my site. I will not do this. This page will stay as it is without any further comments. Thank you. -Andrea USN
This, from a Canadian newspaper, is worth sharing.
I received this as an email from a friend of mine
and I thought that I would share it with some of
My fellow military members!!
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 -
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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