For Americans
Even though I'm not really an American, I wanted to post this cause I enjoyed it and I think you will too...
Finally someone says it right !!!
You probably missed it 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 the following to let everyone know what an American
is, so they would know when they found one:
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 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 is from 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 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.
When Afghanistan was 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, the best products, the best
books, the best music, the best food, the best athletes. 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, 2002 earning a better life for their families.
I've been told that the World Trade Center victims were from
at least 30 other 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 every
bloodthirsty tyrant in the modern history of 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.
Pass this around the World.
I have to disagree on the music part though....
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