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Debbie Prowler Junkie Posts: 258 |
posted 09-12-2001 09:54 PM
TRIBUTE TO THE UNITED STATES > > > > This, from a Canadian newspaper, no less, 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! > |
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Paul Prowler Junkie Posts: 807 |
posted 09-12-2001 11:21 PM
Thank you very much for this uplifting article. I really needed this encouragement this week. God Bless America! ------------------ |
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PROWLER-KEITH Prowler Junkie Posts: 1243 |
posted 09-12-2001 11:29 PM
Gordon Sinclair, is one of the most respected commontators in our country. What he wrote very few would even think of in both our countries. How soon they forget and thats not right. I think that he speaks for what a lot of us Canadians feel toward our American neighbors, I have many American friends that I have made through the years and through this association here, We live in the best countries in the world we love our countries and our flags sure we have our bad eggs, but when it comes to being open hearted and offering help to the less fortunate your country stands far above anyone. Debbie thankyou for posting that clip. Gordon's words make me very proud to be a Canadian and hopefully a true friend to all my American friends. God Bless all at this time for their loss'es and know that your neigbours here grieve with you. PK |
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ed monahan Prowler Junkie Posts: 33595 |
posted 09-12-2001 11:51 PM
Thanks Debbie and Keith. It is kind of tough to be in an upbeat mood the last couple of days. Any encouragement is certainly welcome and needed. |
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Pirana Prowler Junkie Posts: 507 |
posted 09-13-2001 12:11 AM
Thank you for posting this article.......... ------------------ |
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Rich Tilden Prowler Junkie Posts: 343 |
posted 09-13-2001 10:29 AM
The words are excellent and I've seen them many times over the last 28 years. The words are just as uplifting and meaningful today. So everyone knows the history: Origins: On June 5 1973, Canadian radio commentator Gordon Sinclair decided he'd had enough of the stream of criticism and negative press recently directed at the United States of America by foreign journalists (primarily over America's long military involvement in Vietnam, which had ended with the signing of the Paris Peace Accords six months earlier). When he arrived at radio station CFRB in Toronto that morning, he spent twenty minutes dashing off a two-page editorial defending the USA against its carping critics which he then delivered in a defiant, indignant tone during his "Let's Be Personal" spot at 11:45 AM that day. The unusualness of any foreign correspondent -- even one from a country with such close ties to the USA as Canada -- delivering such a caustic commentary about those who would dare to criticize the USA is best demonstrated by the fact that even thirty years later, many Americans doubt that this piece (which has been circulating on the Internet in the slightly-altered form quoted above as something "recently" printed in a Toronto newspaper) is real. It is real, and it received a great deal of attention in its day. After Sinclair's editorial was rebroadcast by a few American radio stations, it spread like wildfire all over the country. It was played again and again (often superimposed over a piece of inspirational music such as "Battle Hymn of the Republic" or "Bridge Over Troubled Waters"), read into the Congressional Record multiple times, and finally released on a record (titled "The Americans"), with all royalties donated to the American Red Cross. (A Detroit radio broadcaster named Byron MacGregor recorded and released an unauthorized version of the piece which hit the record stores before Sinclair's official version; an infringement suit was avoided when MacGregor agreed to donate his profits to the Red Cross as well). Sinclair passed away in 1984, but he will long be remembered on both sides of the U.S.-Canadian border -- both for his contributions to journalism, and for his loudly proclaiming what no one else at the time would stand up and say. |
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ALLEY CAT Prowler Junkie Posts: 36093 |
posted 09-13-2001 01:51 PM
Thanks Debbie for that post. In the words of my senator from Arizona, John McCain: In reference to the terrorist - |
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George C Prowler Junkie Posts: 297 |
posted 09-13-2001 09:51 PM
IT IS TO COMFORTING TO SEE OUR COUNTRY SO UNITED. TODAY SO MANY PEOPLE WERE DRIVING WITH HEADLIGHTS ON AND SO MANY FLAGS WERE BEING FLOWN ON HOMES, BUSINESSES AND CARS. WE ARE A GREAT NATION AND PROUD OF IT. GOD PLEASE BLESS US. ------------------ |
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Rich Tilden Prowler Junkie Posts: 343 |
posted 09-14-2001 08:25 AM
We are being drawn together. I work with folks in two large four story buildings on the Delaware River in Trenton. All of us were stading between the buildings this morning in the dark cool weather with the rain pouring down. We observed a few minutes of silence and it was extremely profound. The weather helped us relate at least a little to what the rescue workers are facing today and we also felt part of the National Day of Prayer and Mourning. |
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