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 Happy Fourth
of July
(So, we
blow our own
horn...not
many others
will.)
Someone in
Pakistan
apparently
published in a
newspaper a
while ago,
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.
(Good on ya,
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
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,
2001,
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.
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