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nibblesandbits

nibblesandbits

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k.hunter30 said:
Really good! Yourself? Done many weddings recently? Have you caught the baby bug from Bun or Jess yet?
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:lol:

No...haven't done a wedding in a few weeks. Also, haven't really caught the baby bug...I mean I sorta have, but it's definitely not full fledged. I know I want one, but I also am smart enough to know I'm SO not ready yet.

And...I'm leaving for Disney on Friday! :sohappy: (That's really my big news...:D )
 
dandaman

dandaman

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k.hunter30 said:
Love the Avatar! How have you been?
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All right, I suppose... and yet, not.

Honestly, I seemed to be the only one at school that actually REMEMBERED what transpired 6 years ago. A few people commented on the American flag pin I wore, much along the lines of "Bush supporter, eh?" or "Stupid Americans."

I can tell you with absolute certainty that I wanted to clobber every last one of them. (I've never thrown a punch in my life.)

I fear for today's perception of the United States of America amongst our youth, and especially my classmates. Our generation has never seen America helping out another country on a massive scale as in many occasions past.

I found this in the original WDWMAGIC 9/11 "report thread", and it pretty much expresses my feelings.

America: The Good Neighbor.

Widespread but only partial news coverage was given recently to a remarkable editorial broadcast from Toronto by Gordon Sinclair, a Canadian television commentator. What follows is the full text of his trenchant remarks as printed in the Congressional Record:

"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.
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God.

Bless.

AMERICA.
 
k.hunter30

k.hunter30

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nibblesandbits said:
:lol:

No...haven't done a wedding in a few weeks. Also, haven't really caught the baby bug...I mean I sorta have, but it's definitely not full fledged. I know I want one, but I also am smart enough to know I'm SO not ready yet.

And...I'm leaving for Disney on Friday! :sohappy: (That's really my big news...:D )
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Oh that's right! How fun! Is it just the two of you?


Shere_Khan said:
I am jealous! I still have 389 days to go!

Where are you staying and for how long?
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Man! I need to plan our next trip to have something to look forward to!

Oh and hi :wave: I'm Kat :D .
 
nibblesandbits

nibblesandbits

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Shere_Khan said:
I am jealous! I still have 389 days to go!

Where are you staying and for how long?
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I'm staying at Pop. (hence the avatar) and I'll be there from Friday the 14 through Friday the 21st. :D

dandaman said:
All right, I suppose... and yet, not.

Honestly, I seemed to be the only one at school that actually REMEMBERED what transpired 6 years ago. A few people commented on the American flag pin I wore, much along the lines of "Bush supporter, eh?" or "Stupid Americans."

I can tell you with absolute certainty that I wanted to clobber every last one of them. (I've never thrown a punch in my life.)

I fear for today's perception of the United States of America amongst our youth, and especially my classmates. Our generation has never seen America helping out another country on a massive scale as in many occasions past.

I found this in the original WDWMAGIC 9/11 "report thread", and it pretty much expresses my feelings.



God.

Bless.

AMERICA.
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Wonderful post sweetie! :kiss:
 
nibblesandbits

nibblesandbits

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Kat said:
Oh that's right! How fun! Is it just the two of you?
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Yep. Just me and What's His Face. We haven't been on a real trip alone in like 2 years. (B/c with the wedding, my family stayed with us and while we've been to Chicago since a few times, those really don't count...I got sick on one, brought a friend on the other, and we were alone on the one, but even that was a year ago.)
 
k.hunter30

k.hunter30

New Member
dandaman said:
All right, I suppose... and yet, not.

Honestly, I seemed to be the only one at school that actually REMEMBERED what transpired 6 years ago. A few people commented on the American flag pin I wore, much along the lines of "Bush supporter, eh?" or "Stupid Americans."

I can tell you with absolute certainty that I wanted to clobber every last one of them. (I've never thrown a punch in my life.)

I fear for today's perception of the United States of America amongst our youth, and especially my classmates. Our generation has never seen America helping out another country on a massive scale as in many occasions past.

I found this in the original WDWMAGIC 9/11 "report thread", and it pretty much expresses my feelings.



God.

Bless.

AMERICA.
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*wipes away a tear*
Dan - that was wonderful to read. Thank you.
 

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