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09-14-01, 05:21 AM (EST)
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"An American Tribute..."
...from a Canadian.

This was sent to my inbox, and was published recently in a Canadian newspaper... I think it is worth sharing with everyone.

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 and radio Commentator. He can be heard daily on CJAD 800 AM radio. 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! Wear it proudly!!

Side note: I have been able to get an internet connection long enough to finally catch up on everything posted here, since Tuesday.... I'm very glad to hear that everyone is alive, and sorry to hear about those of you that lost loved ones. I continue to send my good thoughts for all of you.

I will not comment on the in-fighting that took place recently on this board, except to say that in light of the events of the past week, it is not surprising that people are looking at a target to lash out at... let us not lash out at each other.

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  Subject     Author     Message Date     ID  
 RE: An American Tribute... ItzLisa 09-14-01 1
 RE: An American Tribute... PepeLePew13 09-14-01 2
 RE: An American Tribute... VampKira 09-14-01 3
 This is Amazing (Inside)... IceCat 09-14-01 4
   RE: This is Amazing (Inside)... ItzLisa 09-14-01 5
   And In Detroit/Windsor... AyaK 09-14-01 6
       Vietnam AyaK 09-14-01 7
           RE: Vietnam IceCat 09-14-01 8

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1. "RE: An American Tribute..."
LAST EDITED ON 09-14-01 AT 09:35 AM (EST)

Sleeevie, thank you, hon! (((Hugs!))) This is wonderful, and not just because of my own affection for Canadians! It just means alot to know someone appreciates us and what we're going through.

EDIT TO ADD: Figured since Sleeeve's last part of the post reminded me, the update on my email - still can't get it to work, and my internet connection is weak. It's gonna be screwy for a few more days, I think - I promise to catch up on emails once it's normal again.

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2. "RE: An American Tribute..."
This is great, sleeeve. Yes, I saw that in an email, too. There's something else about Canadian support of the USA that I saw in today's Toronto Star that I'd like to share (edited for this post).

An Air Canada plane hijacked from Lester B. Pearson airport in Toronto can be flown as easily to a target in Washington or New York as were the United and American Airlines planes seized after they had taken off from Boston, Dulles and Newark.

A nice, safe, long-distance flight from Toronto to Vancouver would carry as much highly combustible fuel as did those intercontinental bombs that the terrorists hurled with such murderous efficiency at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

Therefore, once the U.S. determines its new rules for airport and airliner security ... the same rules will have to be applied across the border even if they are entirely excessive by our own national needs.

If Canada is insecure, so that terrorists can enter here and operate here and slip across the border freely, so will the U.S. be insecure.

We must do our part to help make North Americans as a whole feel safer and more secure. We need a North American perimeter that would apply more rigourous controls for people landing from overseas to screen out terrorists.

I am proud to be a partner of the USA and will support whatever the USA decides to do, even if it means war and attacking the nation(s) that housed the terrorists and that it goes against my beliefs in the act of war (my grandfather died in WW2 on a ship that got torpedoed).

Next...

My apologies if I'm repeating something that has already been posted or shown up in an email somewhere, but this is from someone in a Northwest paper (Seattle?). I thought this was a great message to share -- and my apologies for the length of this.

Published Wednesday, September 12, 2001

Headline: We'll go forward from this moment

It's my job to have something to say.

They pay me to provide words that help make sense of that which troubles the American soul. But in this moment of airless shock when hot tears sting disbelieving eyes, the only thing I can find to say, the only words that seem to fit, must be addressed to the unknown author of this suffering.

You monster. You beast. You unspeakable bastard.

What lesson did you hope to teach us by your coward's attack on our World Trade Center, our Pentagon, us? What was it you hoped we would learn? Whatever it was, please know that you failed.

Did you want us to respect your cause? You just damned your cause.

Did you want to make us fear? You just steeled our resolve.

Did you want to tear us apart? You just brought us together.

Let me tell you about my people. We are a vast and quarrelsome family, a family rent by racial, social, political and class division, but a family nonetheless. We're frivolous, yes, capable of expending tremendous emotional energy on pop cultural minutiae -- a singer's revealing dress, a ball team's misfortune, a cartoon mouse. We're wealthy, too, spoiled by the ready availability of trinkets and material goods, and maybe because of that, we walk through life with a certain sense of blithe entitlement. We are fundamentally decent, though -- peace-loving and compassionate. We struggle to know the right thing and to do it. And we are, the overwhelming majority of us, people of faith, believers in a just and loving God.

Some people -- you, perhaps -- think that any or all of this makes us weak. You're mistaken. We are not weak. Indeed, we are strong in ways that cannot be measured by arsenals.

IN PAIN - Yes, we're in pain now. We are in mourning and we are in shock. We're still grappling with the unreality of the awful thing you did, still working to make ourselves understand that this isn't a special effect from some Hollywood blockbuster, isn't the plot development from a Tom Clancy novel. Both in terms of the awful scope of their ambition and the probable final death toll, your attacks are likely to go down as the worst acts of terrorism in the history of the United States and, probably, the history of the world. You've bloodied us as we have never been bloodied before.

But there's a gulf of difference between making us bloody and making us fall. This is the lesson Japan was taught to its bitter sorrow the last time anyone hit us this hard, the last time anyone brought us such abrupt and monumental pain. When roused, we are righteous in our outrage, terrible in our force. When provoked by this level of barbarism, we will bear any suffering, pay any cost, go to any length, in the pursuit of justice.

I tell you this without fear of contradiction. I know my people, as you, I think, do not. What I know reassures me. It also causes me to tremble with dread of the future.

In the days to come, there will be recrimination and accusation, fingers pointing to determine whose failure allowed this to happen and what can be done to prevent it from happening again. There will be heightened security, misguided talk of revoking basic freedoms. We'll go forward from this moment sobered, chastened, sad. But determined, too. Unimaginably determined.

THE STEEL IN US - You see, the steel in us is not always readily apparent. That aspect of our character is seldom understood by people who don't know us well. On this day, the family's bickering is put on hold.

As Americans we will weep, as Americans we will mourn, and as Americans, we will rise in defense of all that we cherish.

So I ask again: What was it you hoped to teach us? It occurs to me that maybe you just wanted us to know the depths of your hatred. If that's the case, consider the message received. And take this message in exchange: You don't know my people. You don't know what we're capable of. You don't know what you just started.

But you're about to learn.


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09-14-01, 04:13 PM (EST)
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3. "RE: An American Tribute..."
*hugs sleeeve* Thanks hon....


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If we're evil or divine...
We're the last in line." - Ronnie James Dio

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09-14-01, 06:54 PM (EST)
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4. "This is Amazing (Inside)..."
LAST EDITED ON 09-15-01 AT 00:44 AM (EST)

The message in sleeeve's post was originally a radio commentary on June 5, 1973 (not September 12, 2001). It was Gordon Sinclair's response to the critics of the US regarding their involvement in Vietnam.

To prove to you that Canadians still believe every last word, a memorial ceremony was held today in our capital city of Ottawa in front of our parliament buildings. It was attended by our Prime Minister and our Governor General and the U.S. Ambassador to Canada.

A crowd of over 100,000 people were present. The most moving moment was the three minutes of silence. 100,000 silent grieving faces... and not a dry eye to be found. Our entire school was watching the ceremony on television and there weren't any dry eyes here, either.

Keep in mind that we have about one tenth of the population of the U.S.... so this ceremony was as significant as if a million people stood in front of the U.S. Capitol building.

When I went to the bank today, the interior of the bank was decorated with Canadian and U.S. flags. There had to be 50 of each flag all over the bank.



September 11, 2001

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09-14-01, 07:43 PM (EST)
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5. "RE: This is Amazing (Inside)..."
Much love and gratitude to our neighbors in the Great White North!

My own wonderful Canadian has set up canned-goods donation boxes at his job to be sent to the WTC volunteers and families! One of the many reasons why I love that man!

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09-14-01, 08:10 PM (EST)
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6. "And In Detroit/Windsor..."
Gordon Sinclair was a commentator on Toronto's CFRB. After he did this editorial, entitled "The Americans", a version of it started circulating to different radio stations with "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" playing in the background.

In Detroit/Windsor, 25-year-old Byron MacGregor, the "news director" of clear-channel radio station CKLW (800 AM), decided to re-record Sinclair's commentary with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra playing "America the Beautiful" in the background. His version came out first (although not until the end of the year) and became a huge hit in January 1974, peaking at #4 in the US and #1 in Canada (in part because it was first, in part because MacGregor had a better-sounding voice, in part because "America the Beautiful" is a better background song, and in part because MacGregor had it released on a Detroit label, Westbound Records, in both Canada and the US). It went platinum and sold over 3.5 million copies between its original release and its re-release during the Gulf War in 1991. Sinclair's own recording reached #24 in the US, by the way, despite its delayed start. Both Sinclair and MacGregor donated their shares of the proceeds from the records to the American Red Cross (a deal that settled a tangled lawsuit between them).

MacGregor became a legend in Canada after this success, and the annual award given by the Radio and Television News Directors Association of Canada for "Best Radio Newscast" is named the "Byron MacGregor Award." He died in 1995 from complications from pneumonia.

I never thought a record that sold so many copies would be forgotten, and I'm glad to see its return.... although my favorite singles peaking on the charts that month were Todd Rundgren's "Hello It's Me," which I'm glad to note has not been forgotten, and Earth, Wind & Fire's "Keep Your Head to the Sky." (In case anyone is interested, the #1s that month were "You're Sixteen" by Ringo Starr and "Bennie and the Jets" by Elton John, according to Billboard).

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09-14-01, 08:22 PM (EST)
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By the way, the Vietnam War didn't end until 1974/75. The Americans were pulling their last regular troops out at the time this record became a hit, but the main reason for its success was that patriotism was a common response to the crippling effects of the Arab oil embargo against the US and Canada, which OPEC started in the fall of 1973 to punish them for their support of Israel in the 1973 Arab-Israeli War.

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09-14-01, 09:11 PM (EST)
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8. "RE: Vietnam"
LAST EDITED ON 09-15-01 AT 00:45 AM (EST)

I thought that date seemed off...

Thanks for the correction, AyaK.



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