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: As with everyone in America, I was in absolute shock that anyone would have the balls and idiocy to attack our nation like that. I am disappointed though that it took a tragedy like this to bring us together as a nation. It also amazes me that other people and other nations could hate America and Americans as they do. A friend of mine sent me this article and I felt it should be shared with as many people as possible. : > 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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