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This is from a Canadian newspaper and IS worth sharing.......
>
> 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 broadcast.
>
> "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 earth quakes 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 am 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.
>
> Stand proud, America.
>
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