Written by an Australian Dentist....and too good to delete....
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>
> To Kill 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 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 an Apache, Blackfoot, Cherokee, Comanche,
Osage, Navaho,
> 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!