Warrior Ancient and Medieval Rules

Please forgive the "off-topic" nature of this message but I think it
appropriate given the circumstances. I don't make it a habit of
doing this but I think the rules can be bent a bit in this instance.
Both I and a couple of friends here in NY lost friends and family
yesterday. Accordingly, my prayers and thoughts go out to the
bereaved, the unaccounted, and the lost.

Kevin
KSantos@...


America: The Good Neighbor.
Widespread but only partial news coverage was given to a remarkable
editorial broadcast from Toronto by Gordon Sinclair, a Canadian
television commentator.
What follows is the full text of his trenchant remarks:

"This Canadian thinks it is time to speak up for the Americans as
the
most generous and possibly the least appreciated people on all the
earth.
Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy were lifted
out of the debris of war by the Americans who poured in billions of
dollars and forgave other billions in debts. None of these countries
is today paying even the interest on its remaining debts to the
United States.
When France was in danger of collapsing in 1956, it was the Americans
who propped it up, and their reward was to be insulted and swindled
on the streets of Paris. I was there. I saw it.
When earthquakes hit distant cities, it is the United States that
hurries in to help. This spring, 59 American communities were
flattened by tornadoes. Nobody helped.
The Marshall Plan and the Truman Policy pumped billions of dollars
into discouraged countries. Now newspapers in those countries are
writing about the decadent, warmongering Americans. I'd like to
see
just one of those countries that is gloating over the erosion of the
United States dollar build its own airplane. Does any other country
in the world have a plane to equal the Boeing Jumbo Jet, the Lockheed
Tri-Star, or the Douglas DC10?
If so, why don't they fly them?
Why do all the International lines except Russia fly American Planes?
Why does no other land on earth even consider putting a man or woman
on the moon?
You talk about Japanese technocracy, and you get radios.
You talk about German technocracy, and you get automobiles. You talk
about American technocracy, and you find men on the moon-not once,
but several times-and safely home again.
You talk about scandals, and the Americans put theirs right in the
store window for everybody to look at.
Even their draft-dodgers are not pursued and hounded. They are here
on our streets, and most of them, unless they are breaking Canadian
laws, are getting American dollars from ma and pa at home to spend
here.
When the railways of France, Germany and India were breaking down
through age, it was the Americans who rebuilt them.
When the Pennsylvania Railroad and the New York Central went broke,
nobody loaned them an old caboose. Both are still broke.
I can name you 5000 times when the Americans raced to the help of
other people in trouble. Can you name me even one time when someone
else raced to the Americans in trouble?
I don't think there was outside help even during the San
Francisco
earthquake.
Our neighbors have faced it alone, and I'm one Canadian who is
damned
tired of hearing them get kicked around.
They will come out of this thing with their flag high. And when they
do, they are entitled to thumb their nose at the lands that are
gloating over their present troubles. I hope Canada is not one of
those."
Stand proud, America!