Message-ID: <30231754.1075858595472.JavaMail.evans@thyme> Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 09:05:15 -0700 (PDT) From: timothy.taylor@apg.amedd.army.mil To: e-mail <.byers@enron.com>, e-mail <.dawson@enron.com>, usamriid.ludwig@enron.com, e-mail <.jim@enron.com>, e-mail <.joe@enron.com>, legal <.taylor@enron.com>, e-mail <.mom@enron.com>, e-mail <.mother@enron.com>, e-mail <.payton@enron.com>, e-mail <.scott/@enron.com>, e-mail <.sharon@enron.com> Subject: FW: A Tribute to the United States Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-From: "Taylor, Timothy G Mr USACHPPM" @ENRON X-To: Byers, Emily (E-mail) , Dawson, Tom (E-mail) , Ludwig, George V Dr USAMRIID , Jim & Clara Kennedy (E-mail) , Joe Biddle (E-mail) , Taylor, Mark E (Legal) , Mom & Dad (George & Ros) Ludwig (E-mail) , Mother & Dad Taylor (E-mail) , Payton, David (E-mail) , Scott/ Mary (Runkle-)/ Emma Cochrane (E-mail) , Sharon at work (E-mail) X-cc: X-bcc: X-Folder: \MTAYLO1 (Non-Privileged)\Taylor, Mark E (Legal)\Deleted Items X-Origin: Taylor-M X-FileName: MTAYLO1 (Non-Privileged).pst -----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 >