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Posted
2/13/03
PLEASE MAXIMIZE YOUR SCREEN
WHAT IS AN
AMERICAN
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:
"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
"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
"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
"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 modern
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."
"Pass this around the World...on the
American"
IN GODWE
TRUST
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I believe in
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