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Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 11:07 AM
Subject: Fwd: An American
> In a message dated 2/12/03 10:28:30 PM, GT4 Dino writes:
>
> <<
> An American
>
> You probably missed it in the rush of news last week, 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, Australian, Iranian, Asian, or Arab,
> or Pakistani, or Afghan. An American may also be a Cherokee, Osage,
> Blackfoot, Navaho, Apache, 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 or 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 man and woman to the pursuit
> of happiness.
>
> An American is generous. Americans have helped 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, 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
> 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
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