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| SlimTimmy | posted on 09-15-2001 @ 11:34 PM |    | |||
| Hanger-On Registered: Jan. 01  | The United States..... 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 n 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. This has also been put to music, its called Gordon Sinclair's 'Americans' | ||||
OA.com's Bodyguard Anger problem? What anger problem? I hate the fucking mud! USA | posted on 09-15-2001 @ 11:43 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Jan. 01 | Thnak you for this Timmy. I heard about it on the radio a few days ago, but completely forgot to look it up once I got home. It truly goes to show what a great country we live in and I'll forever be proud to call myself an American.
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| Spork | posted on 09-15-2001 @ 11:44 PM | | |||
| Psychopath Registered: Jun. 01 | Slim, this has been posted at LEAST two other times in other threads. Visit this Website As I mentioned in the other thread, this was actually broadcast in 1973(!) and the original was worded differently. I love the sentiment of this, and couldn't agree with it more. However, it's such an odd phenomenon - the e-mail chain letter. I think I received this thing at least four times in my e-mail. I wonder if anyone will ever mass mail the ORIGINAL passage out?  Thank you to all the brave volunteers who brought us all together as a country, and thank you to those of you brave soldiers who will fight and have fought for our country. We are a free people because of your efforts. | ||||
| SlimTimmy | posted on 09-15-2001 @ 11:46 PM | | |||
| Hanger-On Registered: Jan. 01 | I only checked Off topic but now I see that it was posted already, My Fault | ||||
| crx girl Newbie! vg Y's me ugo girl Limey Mothercocker | posted on 09-16-2001 @ 3:00 AM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Oct. 00 | i actually heard this on the radio today, apperently it was written in 1973. although a lot has changed, much is still relevant... An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come. --Victor Hugo regardless of my status, i am a nice person. no really, i am, i swear;) crack hitler belongs to me :) need me? try: [email protected] red rocket is under my supervision until 8/27 | ||||
| DevonGetTheTable | posted on 09-16-2001 @ 3:04 AM | | |||
| Psychopath Registered: May. 01 | I read this editorial the other day and I had one word for it..... BRAVO!! E.C.W.! E.C.W.! E.C.W.! E.C.W.!  | ||||
| GonzoStyle | posted on 09-16-2001 @ 3:05 AM | | |||
| Hanger-On Registered: Jan. 70 | I have posted several speeches from the past from roosevelt to kennedy and some words are just etched in time and ring true many decades after they are penned. "For all we have and are, for all our children's fate, stand up and take the war, the Hun is at the gate!" --- Rudyard Kipling She-Mail Me Here | ||||
| Spork | posted on 09-16-2001 @ 4:37 PM | | |||
| Psychopath Registered: Jun. 01 | Thought this might be of some interest... 1973 Pro-U.S. Editorial Resurfaces Updated: Sat, Sep 15 5:08 AM EDT TORONTO (AP) - A message of support to America written 28 years ago by Canadian journalist Gordon Sinclair has resurfaced on the Internet after this week's terrorist attacks on New York and Washington. Called "The Americans," the commentary recorded by Sinclair praises the United States for the help it has given other nations through the years and calls for people to rally to America's side in times of trouble. "Our neighbors have faced it alone and I am one Canadian who is damned tired of hearing them kicked around," Sinclair wrote in 1973, the end of the Vietnam era. "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." Sinclair's son, Gordon Sinclair Jr., said Friday he has been inundated with e-mail about his father's words. "I've spent over five hours yesterday just answering these things," he said. Some people, unaware that the elder Sinclair died in 1984, congratulated his son for the commentary. Sinclair Jr. said his father would have been pleased at the reaction. "He loved any attention," the son said. "He'd be ranting and raving at anybody that said anything anti-U.S. at a time like this." Sinclair wrote the piece and read it on the radio after hearing reports that the American Red Cross was facing financial collapse. At the time, the United States had just pulled out of Vietnam amid economic troubles and the Watergate scandal. Later, Sinclair made a record of "The Americans," reciting it with the "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" playing in the background. Sales of the recording earned more than $500,000 that was donated to the American Red Cross. When Sinclair died, his widow, Gladys, received a letter from then-President Ronald Reagan about "The Americans." "I know I speak for all Americans, in saying that the radio editorial Gordon wrote in 1973, praising the accomplishments of the United States, was a wonderful inspiration for our nation," Reagan wrote. Thank you to all the brave volunteers who brought us all together as a country, and thank you to those of you brave soldiers who will fight and have fought for our country. We are a free people because of your efforts. | ||||
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