~*` GLAD TO BE AN AMERICAN `{RePost}
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~*~`GLAD TO BE AN AMERICAN`~*~
`Written by an Australian Dentist..
..and too good to delete..
. `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, 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 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 .
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 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 your .
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
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`Received this in email, and want to share with all,
as it is too good to delete!
"MAY GOD CONTINUE TO BLESS ALL OF OUR TROOPS,
AND ALL BEAUTIFUL AMERICANS!
Presented by:
MaryJane Balthazar
©*2008*
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