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Yea yea...I know I haven't updated in a while...anyways check this out:
To Kill an American>>>>You probably missed it in the rush of news last week, 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. Americans welcome the best of >everything...the best products, the best books, the best music, the best >food, the best services. But they also welcome the least.>>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.>>>>Please keep this going!>Pass this around the World ?>then pass it around again.>It says it all, for all of us
To Kill an American>>>>You probably missed it in the rush of news last week, 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. Americans welcome the best of >everything...the best products, the best books, the best music, the best >food, the best services. But they also welcome the least.>>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.>>>>Please keep this going!>Pass this around the World ?>then pass it around again.>It says it all, for all of us