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Date: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 11:59 AM
Subject: FW: Stand Proud America


>I hope you will find this as interesting as I did--
>
>Zee Peters
>Executive Director
>Camps For Kids
>816-474-5111 x410
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Peters, Blaise [SMTP:BPeter01@sprintspectrum.com]
>> Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 1:51 PM
>> To: 'Ben Fletcher'; 'Franz'; 'John Cauthon'; 'Paul C Woods'; 'Ron
>> Durland'; 'Shawn Vadnais'; 'Steve Smith'; 'Warren Larson'; 'Zee Work'
>> Subject: FW: Stand Proud America
>>
>> This is good.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jarsulic, Erin
>> Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 1:43 PM
>> To: 'Rachel'; Bass, Jeanette; Winholtz, Barbara; Cooper, Bridgette;
>> Sartain, Travis; George, Joe; Tarbox, Marcie; Yazel, Terri; Peters,
>> Blaise; Pearce, Jessie; Crow, Rhonda; Maidment, Stephanie; Flynn,
>> Jeffrey; Alderman, Larry
>> Subject: FW: Stand Proud America
>>
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>> This is absolutely riveting, I have never heard it put this way before.
I
>> was in tears as I sat here and thought about the thousands of people
whose
>> lives have changed forever.
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>> > >>> 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."
>> > >>>
>> > >>> 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.
>> > >>>
>> > >>> I SURE HOPE THAT A LOT MORE READ IT SOON.
>> > >>>
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