I remember when it came out and the feelings it stired in many people. I made
a video to it in 1980. Its good to see this is still going around.
Don
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-dakota-truck@BUFFNET.NET
>[mailto:owner-dakota-truck@BUFFNET.NET]On Behalf Of Jack Paulson
>Sent: Monday, May 21, 2001 2:17 PM
>To: dodge dakota
>Subject: DML: USA
>
>I sent this to the off topic list but, with Memorial
>Day upon us I thought I'd send this to everyone.
>
>This was written in the 1970s - still valid -
>
>TRIBUTE TO THE UNITED STATES
>by Gordon Sinclair, Canadian commentator
>
>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:
>
>[/i]"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
>millions 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
>millions of dollars into discouraged countries. Now
>newspapers in those countries are writing about the
>decadent, war-mongering 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![/i]
>
>=====
>2000 Quad Cab 4X4-Sport V-6 Automatic Sports Plus Package
>31X10.5 tires Limited Slip 3.55 Trailer Tow Group HD Package Skid Plates
>Added:Airaid air filter,Flowmaster 3 chamber, Steel Horse Torneau cover,
>Autolite Double Platinum 3923 Plugs, Removed air horns from Throttle Body,
>new TB bolts, Taylor 8mm Wires, Cool Tape around air filter and A/C tubes,
>McGard Tailgate lock, Audiovox cut off switch & hood lock
>-Smyrna, Georgia
>
>
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