[South Florida DX Association] RE: To Kill an American

[Pete Rimmel - Marine Chemist - N8PR]

   Please pass this on...  I think it worthy of that ! 


  Subject: Thank you Australia
  Written by an Australian Dentist....and too
  good to delete....


  To Kill an American
  You probably missed this in the rush of news, 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 an editorial the
  following day to let 
  everyone know what an American is . So they would
  know when they found one. 
  (Good one, 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 Comanche, 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 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.


  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.


  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!


  As of the morning of September 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.


  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. 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.

  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.


  Please keep this going!
  Pass this around the World ?
  Then pass it around again.
  It says it all, for all of us
  Please do not just delete. 
  Pass it on first.
  Thanks!