Well Said , AMEN!!
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From: <geoff@centrifugepartners.com>
To: <dakota-truck@buffnet.net>
Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 10:36 PM
Subject: DML: Fw: (Fwd) FW: America: The Good Neighbor
> Please, read this, sorry to send it to all of DML.
>
> -geoff
>
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> :
> : ----- Original Message -----
> : From: "Butler, Michael" <MButler@TishmanSpeyer.com>
> : To: <lyndamartone@yahoo.com>
> : Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 1:48 PM
> : Subject: FW: (Fwd) FW: America: The Good Neighbor
> :
> :
> : > Hun,
> : >
> : > Thought you would enjoy.
> : >
> : > -----Original Message-----
> : > From: Avrick, Linda
> : > Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 9:44 AM
> : > To: Vono, Maria; Sekaloff, Carole Karpel; Cascio, Terry; Ogle, Eva;
> : > Butler, Michael
> : > Subject: FW: (Fwd) FW: America: The Good Neighbor
> : >
> : >
> : >
> : > Please read this.
> : >
> : > Linda Avrick
> : > -----Original Message-----
> : > From: Lorraine Attard [mailto:lorraine@lectrosonics.com]
> : > Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 06:15 PM
> : > To: Avrick, Linda; JEANETTE@lectrosonics.com; Joelpe632@cs.com;
> : > THERESAO@lectrosonics.com; anna_libetti@ny.kirkland.com
> : > Subject: (Fwd) FW: America: The Good Neighbor
> : >
> : >
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> : >
> : >
> : >
> : >
> : >
> : > 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!
> : >
> : >
> : >
> : > 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.
> : >
> : > ------- End of forwarded message -------
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