A trbute... copied from a Beaumont club

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This was forwarded from another list that I am on..

it made me thank God that I live where I do.

Perhaps it will help you all too..

Love

> TRIBUTE TO THE UNITED STATES

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> This, from a Canadian newspaper, no less, is worth sharing.

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> America: The Good Neighbor.

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> 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:

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> " 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.

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> 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.

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> 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.

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> 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.

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> 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.

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> 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 DC10? If so, why

> don't they fly them? Why do all the International

> lines except Russia fly American Planes?

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> 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.

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> 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.

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> 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.

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> 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.

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> 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 flags held 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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> Stand proud, America!

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