---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment List, >Many Canadians, our silent majority, echo Gordon Sinclair's remarks . . >Though he has been dead for many years, and the events which prompted his >observations are long past, hi remarks are as timely and relevant now more >than ever. I am damn proud to have American friends !! >Jim Kinnear Thanks Jim & others. I'm not subscribed to pianotech at work but I just sent this to the CAUT list and thought there might also be some others who would be interested. I won't repost the story but here are some interesting comments about this tribute, a link for the original script & audio of the original broadcast and a link pertaining to rumors associated with the WTC disaster. Avery ======================================================== FW: A response on today's horrid event from a Canadian This, from a Canadian newspaper, is worth sharing. America: The Good Neighbor. SNIP Comments: Aside from the fact that this text was written 28 years ago and has suffered minor revisions during its travels in cyberspace, it is authentic. Journalist and radio personality Gordon Sinclair delivered the commentary on his Toronto show in 1973, when anti-American sentiment was at an all-time high. For obvious reasons, Americans ate it up. The piece has circulated on the Internet - sometimes attributed to Sinclair and sometimes not (but always to "a Canadian") - for several years. Its suddenly renewed popularity in September 2001 can be attributed to the recent terrorist attacks on U.S. soil. Americans, smarting from the implicit hatred behind these acts, have found solace in sincere words of appreciation from a geographical neighbor. Those words were not, however, authored "recently," as most currently circulating versions claim. Further reading: Story of 'The Americans' History of the piece from the Canadian Communications Foundation http://urbanlegends.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://www.rcc.ryerson.ca/ccf/news/unique/american.html 'The Americans' by Gordon Sinclair Original text and audio recording of Sinclair's broadcast http://urbanlegends.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://www.rcc.ryerson.ca/ccf/news/unique/am%5Ftext.html Rumor Watch: Terrorist Attacks on U.S. Coverage of rumors associated with the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/weekly/aa091101a.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/fe/ce/23/72/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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