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-----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." < < --- < Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. < Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). < Version: 6.0.255 / Virus Database: 128 - Release Date: 05/17/2001 < < --- < Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. < Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). < Version: 6.0.255 / Virus Database: 128 - Release Date: 05/17/2001 <
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