Sponsor |  fgviva | Sep 21, 2007 10:10am | Yes i would chose no other place to live and raise a family.
Very tired of seeing non Americans bashing the US, but as far as true Americans doing the bashing, i give them their right to do so...............................
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Sponsor | | captcarnage | Sep 21, 2007 11:32am | | It is possible to love America and not be happy with the government. I proud of our heritage as a nation. I am proud that we were able to throw of the chains of colonialism and establish ourselves as a free and independent nation that opened it's doors to all who were oppressed and sought refuge. I'm proud of the spirit of America that is freedom and liberty and justice. I'm proud to be called an American. |
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Sponsor | | FreqWiz | Sep 25, 2007 12:01pm | I am Proud of my young country.
I am Proud of my young family.
I am Proud of my friends.
I am proud of myself.
I am Proud of Betsy! |
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|  loumi | Sep 27, 2007 3:25pm | i am proud that the US has been formed by people from every corner of the earth, every race, and every religion
and although we struggled with it at times, we have done well in assimilating into a single, inclusive culture; one where barriers are coming down
when i was growing up in the melting pot of NYC, it was a scandal if an Italian-american married an Irishman-american; today this kind of thinking is laughable
and i am proud of my three children for having friends, roommates and spouses who come from many different countries and cultures
and although we have a way to go to be truly and fully tolerant, i think that the USA is as good an example as there is for the world to follow |
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Sponsor | | Vortexfugue | Sep 29, 2007 3:35pm | I remember when I first heard this on the radio over 34 years ago, and it made me so proud, and I've been proud ever since.
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"The Americans"
It was June 5, 1973. The United States had just pulled out of the Vietnamese War which ended in defeat. It was a war condemned daily on TV, over radio and in the press. The war had divided the American people. At home and abroad it seemed everyone was lambasting the United States. The American president was being investigated and it seemed that all American institutions were being torn down. It was a sad time in America. That's why this broadcast was immediately flashed across the U.S. It was received by a grateful America -- finally someone with something nice to say about us.
Gordon Sinclair, in his noon-hour broadcast rose to the defense of the American people. His voice was heard around the world as no Canadian has before or since. Years afterwards, his words are repeated over and over again. They were read into the U. S. Congressional Records several times. They keep reappearing because they are true and because it is so unusual for someone to defend America. I'm proud to repeat them here again
Gordon Sinclair's "The Americans" - Original Script "LET'S BE PERSONAL" Broadcast June 5, 1973 CFRB, Toronto, Ontario
Topic: "The Americans"
The United States dollar took another pounding on German, French and British exchanges this morning, hitting the lowest point ever known in West Germany. It has declined there by 41% since 1971 and this Canadian thinks it is time to speak up for the Americans as the most generous and possibly the least-appreciated people in all the earth.
As long as sixty years ago, when I first started to read newspapers, I read of floods on the Yellow River and the Yangtse. Who rushed in with men and money to help? The Americans did.
They have helped control floods on the Nile, the Amazon, the Ganges and the Niger. Today, the rich bottom land of the Mississippi is under water and no foreign land has sent a dollar to help. 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 those countries is today paying even the interest on its remaining debts to the United States.
When the franc 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 distant cities are hit by earthquakes, it is the United States that hurries into help... Managua Nicaragua is one of the most recent examples. So far this spring, 59 American communities have been flattened by tornadoes. Nobody has helped.
The Marshall Plan .. the Truman Policy .. all pumped billions upon billions of dollars into discouraged countries. Now, newspapers in those countries are writing about the decadent war-mongering Americans.
I'd like to see one of those countries that is gloating over the erosion of the United States dollar build its own airplanes.
Come on... let's hear it! Does any other country in the world have a plane to equal the Boeing Jumbo Jet, the Lockheed Tristar or the Douglas DC-10? If so, why don't they fly them? Why do all international lines except Russia fly American planes? Why does no other land on earth even consider putting a man or women 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 everyone to look at. Even the draft dodgers are not pursued and hounded. They are here on our streets, most of them ... unless they are breaking Canadian laws .. are getting American dollars from Ma and Pa at home to spend here.
When the Americans get out of this bind ... as they will... who could blame them if they said 'the hell with the rest of the world'. Let someone else buy the Israel bonds, Let someone else build or repair foreign dams or design foreign buildings that won't shake apart in earthquakes.
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 to you 5,000 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 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 these. But there are many smug, self-righteous Canadians. And finally, the American Red Cross was told at its 48th Annual meeting in New Orleans this morning that it was broke.
This year's disasters .. with the year less than half-over... has taken it all and nobody...but nobody... has helped.
(c) 1973 BY GORDON SINCLAIR
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It still makes the hairs on my neck stand up when I read it and remains timely even today, and especially today.
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Sponsor | | WasChabad | Oct 18, 2007 10:12am | | I couldn't have said it better! |
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Sponsor | | anb | Oct 19, 2007 12:23pm | The American Flag. I am always happily amazed over and over again how inspiring this national symbol is. On the day my dad died and got a small military burial, the happiest and saddest moment was when the flag was handed over with the words "On behlaf of a grateful nation..."
After 9/11, I saw a poster "What the Flag would say if it could speak." I never forgot that. I think that while this isn't the exact item I saw, it's close.
"If the American Flag could speak, I think this is what it might say:
I am your Flag, and I am proud to be your Flag. Together we live in the greatest nation in the world. A free nation where I can fly freely in the breeze outside your home, on the street, in your schools and courthouses.
I am not just a piece of brightly colored cloth, I am a symbol that represents something great. My red stripes indicate hardiness and courage. My white is a symbol of purity and innocence. The blue color is vigilance, perseverance, and justice.
I was in the hand of my first President in the blood and snow of Valley Forge. I was there when my nation was born - small, with a wilderness at her back and seas at her sides, and not one friendly neighbor to whom she, as a struggling infant orphan, could call for help in distress.
I saw that child survive and grow strong. Most people forget, but I still see in my memory those bright and brave young men and women who died at Pearl Harbor, Normandy, Coral Sea, the Asian Jungles, throughout Europe, Korea and Vietnam.
And when they died for me, I wrapped them in my love and draped my honor over their caskets. Yes, I must speak because their voices have been silenced forever. I fly proudly over their green graves, praying that wars might end forever. Never forgetting them, I rise every morning to watch over the graves of our finest, whose years were short but whose service was longer than we can ever measure.
I, the American Flag, have lived long, traveled far and endured much. A million lives and more were sacrificed to give me the right to speak.
You can climb any mountain! Possibilities? They're unlimited - except as you limit them with a cynical, bitter, negative attitude! Yes, when you see me in church, school or flying on the streets - listen to my stars and stripes as I cry out to every boy and girl, every man and woman. "Dream Your Dreams" - "Dare To Believe" - You Can Make It In America.
I am the American Flag. Be humble enough to know where your glory and greatness come from. "Old Glory," I'm called. What is my glory? My glory is the freedom that I give to every law respecting man, woman and child. I live in the hearts of all people who yearn for freedom to laugh, to love, to pray, to play, to marry and to have children.
I have called out to countries, "Come to my shores, all who are tired, poor, oppressed, and yearning to breathe freely. Come and I will be your guarantee of liberty." I say to my people, "Be proud, be humble, and last,... be renewed!
If you get a lump in your throat when you hear the Star Spangled Banner, or break out in a cold chill with goose bumps when I pass by waving freely, or tears shade your eyes when you sing "God Bless America", never think you are getting sentimental or weak. No, that is a sign of being strong, loyal, and dedicated to a cause, a principal - "one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all......."
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