MOTM

Apologies for the OT nature of this post, but I feel that this is an
appropriate time to share these sentiments. If you agree, please pass these
words along to others.

Mike


> TRIBUTE TO AMERICA
>
> The following, from a Canadian newspaper, is worth sharing.
>
> Its subject is "America: The Good Neighbor"
>
> Widespread but only partial news coverage was given recently to a
> remarkable editorial broadcast from Toronto by Gordon Sinclair, a
> 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!