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Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Thanks Australia! This is Awesome!

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,
Navajo, 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.

15 comments:

Anonymous said...

This came up in my reader early yesterday and when I went to comment it couldn't find it. I tried after work and same thing. I thought damn it she's not going to post it. But here it is. BRAVO!!! This is totally awesome and should be required reading by EVERYONE!!! WOOT!!!

bobbie said...

this is impressive. thanks, indeed, to this Australian.

Susan at Stony River said...

What a wonderful tribute to the country and its people!

I love it.

dianasfaria.com said...

This is wonderful! Thanks for sharing this Sylvia.
: )

Tash said...

Thank you for this post from me too...the AMERICAN (Croatian-Serbian-Bosnian-Los Angeleno)!

BLOGitse said...

or Scandinavian, Finnish, blond, brown hair, blue eyes or brown...

Well written!!! Thanks for sharing!!!

BLOGitse

BlossomFlowerGirl said...

Wonderful piece of writing. Thank you for sharing it, I haven't seen it before.
Cheers.
Melbourne Daily Photo

Joe Todd said...

Great post

Lois said...

What a wonderful post! Thanks for sharing.

George said...

This is absolutely awesome. Thanks for a great post.

Pat said...

This is a fantastic article! Bless you for posting it! I will put a link to it on my facebook page!!

Pat said...

This is a fantastic article! Bless you for posting it! I will put a link to it on my facebook page!!

Pat said...

This is a fantastic article! Bless you for posting it! I will put a link to it on my facebook page!!

Pat said...

This is a fantastic article! Bless you for posting it! I will put a link to it on my facebook page!!

happily retired gal said...

I've not seen this before, but it's wonderful and I'm so glad you shared it. Kudos to the Australian author!
Hugs and blessings,

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