[MIham] What an American is:

[FSK]

 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. (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. Everyone who holds to that spirit, everywhere, is an 
American.


   Author unknown



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