Date: Fri, 8 May 2009 08:19:20 -0500
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From: John Rodgers <inua@CHARTER.NET>
Subject: Re: Friday NVC: Thanks Australia
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Hector,
Aussie or not - I like the content. Truth!
John Rodgers
88 GL Driver
Hector Zapata wrote:
> *Written by an Australian Dentist *
>
> *To Kill an American *
> *You probably missed this in the rush of news, but there was actually a
> report that someone in Pakistan had published in a newspaper, an offer of a
> reward to anyone who killed an American, any American.*
>
> *So an Australian dentist wrote an editorial the following day to let
> everyone know what an American is . So they would know when they found one.
> (Good one, mate!!!!) *
>
> *'An American is English, or French, or Italian, Irish, German, Spanish ,
> Polish, Russian or Greek. An American may also be Canadian, Mexican,
> African, Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Australian, Iranian, Asian, or
> Arab, or Pakistani or Afghan. *
>
> *An American may also be a Comanche, Cherokee, Osage, Blackfoot, Navaho,
> Apache, Seminole or one of the many other tribes known as native Americans.*
> *
>
> **An American is Christian , or he could be Jewish, or Buddhist, or Muslim.
> In fact, there are more Muslims in America than in** ** Afghanistan . The
> only difference is that in America they are free to worship as each of them
> chooses. **
>
> **An American is also free to believe in no religion... For that he will
> answer only to God, not to the government, or to armed thugs claiming to
> speak for the government and for God.** *
> *
> **An American lives in the most prosperous land in** **the history of the
> world.** *
> * **The root of that prosperity can be found in the Declaration of
> Independence , which recognizes the God given right of each person to the
> pursuit of happiness.**
>
> **An American is generous. Americans have helped out just about every other
> nation in the world in their time of need, never asking a thing in return...
> **
>
>
> **When Afghanistan was over-run by the Soviet army 20 years ago, Americans
> came with arms and supplies to enable the people to win back their country!
> **
>
>
> **As of the morning of September 11, Americans had given more than any other
> nation to the poor in Afghanistan...*
> *The national symbol of America, The Statue of Liberty, welcomes your
> tired and your poor, the wretched refuse of your teeming shores, the
> homeless, tempest tossed. These in fact are the people who built America **
>
>
> **Some of them were working in the Twin Towers the morning of September 11 ,
> 2001 earning a better life for their families. It's been told that the World
> Trade Center victims were from at least 30 different countries, cultures,
> and first languages, including those that aided and abetted the terrorists.
> *
> * **So you can try to kill an American if you must.. Hitler did. So did
> General Tojo , and Stalin , and Mao Tse-Tung, and other blood-thirsty
> tyrants in the world. But, in doing so you would just be killing yourself .
> Because Americans are not a particular people from a particular place. They
> are the embodiment of the human spirit of freedom. Everyone who holds to
> that spirit, everywhere, is an American. **
> ** ****
>
> *******************************
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