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Posted By	Discussion Topic: Proud to be an American
Rockland Five O	posted on 09-14-2001 @ 5:04 AM
Hanger-On Registered: Oct. 00	I work for a Police Department in the suburbs, 30 minutes from NYC. I am also a volunteer firefighter/EMT with a Fire Department in the community I live in. My Police Department has been working 12 hour shifts. Some were sent to help out in NYC, others were posted around our community to reassure our residents that they are being protected. We are now manning 24 hour information hotline for victims families. My Fire Department has been put on stand-by for relief efforts. There is an incredible sense of helplessness that we all feel, but we have to realize that everyone in this country is helping out. In addition to the men and woman on the front lines in NYC and Washington DC, there are people waiting hours on line to donate blood. They are donating food, clothing, supplies by the truckloads. Everywhere you look you see an American Flag flying. Even saying a prayer helps. This is the first chance I have gotten to get online and I recieved the following story in an email. It is from a Canadian newspaper and I thought it was worth sharing. Please excuse me if it has been posted before. Be proud. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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! Wear it proudly!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ March 17, 2000 - NYC St. Patrick's Day Parade - From NBC-Channel 4 parade coverage
Whackbag	posted on 09-14-2001 @ 6:27 AM
Psychopath Registered: Sep. 00	Be strong bro, keep working hard. Mr. Sinclair speaks the truth in that article. God bless.
Whackbag	posted on 09-14-2001 @ 6:27 AM
Psychopath Registered: Sep. 00	Be strong bro, keep working hard. Mr. Sinclair speaks the truth in that article. God bless.
TJLamb0518 Just another dick making a comeback The Dr. Seuss of SU	posted on 09-14-2001 @ 8:47 AM
Psychopath Registered: Nov. 00	It's good to know there are still heroes. Thank You doesn't even come close. "A little song, a little dance, a little seltzer in your pants!"
M-ACE G.O.O.F.B.A.H.G.S. Ur-Quan Dreadnought Commander	posted on 09-15-2001 @ 12:11 AM
Psychopath Registered: Jul. 01	You have the whole United States behind you. Be strong. click here to see the whole movie.
okterrific23	posted on 09-15-2001 @ 12:37 AM
Psychopath Registered: May. 00	We must never forget September 11, 2001--The Day the Earth Stood Still. If my country calls on me to fight I will gladly help defend my country. President Bush better retaliate, this is war, nobody messes with the U.S.A. "I Pledge Allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."
Beyond Mirth	posted on 09-19-2001 @ 12:39 PM
Hanger-On Registered: Sep. 01	who has a comment on the Arab kids in igh Schools and Colleges that refuse to say or acknowledge the pledge of Allegiance in the past week since these demons have done this? personally I think they should be beaten senseless, then we should tie them up and have little birds peck at their junk for a few days! Rid our planet of these dirty demons now! aka " Little Norton" I've been adopted by Austin, thanks cuz. 9/14/01 ...And still these words ring through: to your own self be true and be careful what you learn cause sometimes knowing burns.
Noellevious Teh cute. Look at that. You could bounce quarters off of it. Incredible.	posted on 09-19-2001 @ 12:51 PM
O&A Board Regular Registered: Sep. 01	Thank you Rockland. May God bless you and everyone you hold dear. Under the superior tutelage of FollowThisLogic "God may have mercy on you, but we won't." - John McCain

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