This is GREAT! Written by an Australian dentist.
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> To kill an American
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> You probably missed it in the rush of news recently, 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.
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> 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!)
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> "An American is English, or French, or Italian, Irish, German, Cuban,
>Spanish, Polish, Russian or Greek. An Americ an may also be Canadian,
>Mexican, African, Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Australian, Iranian,
>Asian, or Arab, or Pakistani or Afghan or any other.
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> An American may also be a Comanche, Cherokee, Osage, Blackfoot, Navaho,
>Apache, Seminole or one of the many other tribes known as native Americans.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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!
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> As of the morning of Sept, 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.
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> 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 e who built America.
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> Some of them were working in the twin towers the morning of Sept. 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.
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> 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 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.
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> 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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