Posted by
GarryB on Tuesday, September 18, 2007 5:46:48 PM
You probably missed it in the rush of news last week, but there was actually a report that someone in Pakistanhad
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 Afghanistanwas overrun 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 TwinTowersthe 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