Date:         Wed, 12 Sep 2001 22:59:34 -0500
Reply-To:     Tom & Phyllis <erikoyne@EARTHLINK.NET>
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From:         Tom & Phyllis <erikoyne@EARTHLINK.NET>
Subject:      Re: [Syncro] People uniting
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A blast from the past: Gordon Sinclair's editorial copied below was
originally created for and broadcast by CKLW Radio, Windsor, Canada sometime
in the mid-to-late 1970's. It was later released as a 45 with appropriate
patriotic music in the background and delivered in Sinclair's distinctive
(if somewhat bombastic) vocal style. It enjoyed a brief flurry of domestic
sales and inevitable radio parodies.

To those (few) list members asking - what's a 45? It's kind of like a CD but
with a great big hole in the center and it's not smooth but grooved
and.....oh forget it.

Except to add 45s aren't very useful for shimming any of those moving,
rotating Vanagon parts (RCV).

Tom in KCMO
82 Westy
& WRCN/WCBN-FM Ann Arbor back in those halcyon daze

> From: "G. Jetson" <dkcomet@YAHOO.COM>
> Reply-To: "G. Jetson" <dkcomet@YAHOO.COM>
> Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 18:29:44 -0700
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: [Syncro] People uniting
>
> Hi All,
> I'm not going to take any sides here. But, ironically
> I got an email from a Canadian friend that had an
> article published in the paper up there. I think it's
> what the initial post that started this string was
> hinting at. While the points may be accurate, it's not
> for us to bitch about internationally.
>
> Maybe you will agree with the article, maybe not. It
> doesn't matter. Let's all just move on & hope that
> someday the rest of the world will get along as well
> as the list does. This is a great community we have
> developed here. We all help each other & our lives as
> VW owners are greatly improved by everyones
> contributions.
>
> Best wishes,
> David K
> Seattle
>
>
>> A great commentary from our friends up north.
>>
>>>
>
>>> TRIBUTE TO THE UNITED STATES
>>>
>>> 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 5,000 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."
>
>
>
>> Chris Gronski wrote:
>
> I just got back from giving blood that will no doubt,
> as was my
> intention, go
>> to New York or Washington to help survivors. The USA
> has my
> unreserved
>> condolences for this despicable act of violence.
> Mike you have my
> condolences
>> for your obvious ignorance.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Chris Gronski
>> Toronto, Canada - Where a couple dozen of your
> planes landed
>>
>> On Tue, 11 September 2001, adovehunter2@yahoo.com
> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Im new to the list for about 3 weeks now. Ive got
> to say that Im
>>> pleased that some from other countries are thinking
> of us for a
>>> change. Its always us that sends aid all over the
> world in disasters
>>> and very few others do,but we are always malinged
> as the devil.Lets
>>> see if anyone steps up to the plate and helps us in
> our time of need
>>> or if we will have to do it ourselves as
> always...Mike in Fresno
>
>
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