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[Gary L. Sun]

> > 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." 
> > > 
> > > Stand proud, America! 
> > > 
> > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 
> > > This is one of the best editorials that I have ever 
> > > read regarding the United States. It is nice that one 
> > > man realizes it. I only wish that the rest of the 
> > > world would realize it. We are always blamed for 
> > > everything, and never even get a thank you for the 
> > > things we do. 
> > > 
> > > I would hope that each of you would send this to as 
> > > many people as you can and emphasize that they should 
> > > send it to as many of their friends until this letter 
> > > is sent to every person on the web. I am just a single 
> > > 
> > > American that has read this, 
> > > I SURE HOPE THAT A LOT MORE READ IT SOON.