-----Original Message-----
From: Bauer, John W Mr USACHPPM
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 11:25 AM
To: CHPPM-DEHE (TS-E)
Subject: FW: A Tribute to the United States




 J  B




-----Original Message-----
From: Kistner, Stephen L Mr USACHPPM
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 10:56 AM
To: CHPPM-Directors Plus
Subject: FW: A Tribute to the United States



FYI

Steve



> Subject:	FW: A Tribute to the United States
>
>
> It is about time someone else noticed.
>
> A few words of encouragement from the Canadians:
>
> A 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?
>
> 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."
>
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