[sdiy] [OT] Fwd: TRIBUTE TO THE UNITED STATES

[Larry]

Thank you Gordon Sinclair.  I hope that, somehow, this reaches the 
terrorists, as they will only be confused by it.

To everyone in the Synth-DIY list, I thank you for your concerns, and for 
allowing me the freedom to forward this to you.  (Also, thank you for 
letting me look, listen, and learn from you, on a number of different levels!)

Larry



>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? 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!
>
>
>Wear it proudly!!
>
>
>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, I SURE HOPE THAT A LOT MORE READ IT SOON.