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* * * FOOD FOR THOUGHT........
* * * * * * * * At a time when our president and other politicians
* * * * * * * * seem to apologize for our country's prior actions,
* * * * * * * * here's a refresher on how some of our former
* * * * * * * * patriots handled negative comments about our
* * * * * * * * country.
* * * * * * * * JFK'S
* * * * * * * * Secretary of State, Dean Rusk, was in France in the
* * * * * * * * early 60's when
* * * * * * * * DeGaulle decided to pull out of NATO. DeGaulle said
* * * * * * * * he wanted all US
* * * * * * * * military out of France as soon as possible.
* * * * * * * * Rusk responded,
* * * * * * * * "Does that include those who are buried here?"
* * * * * * * DeGaulle
* * * * * * * did not respond.
* * * * * * You
* * * * * could have heard a pin drop.
* * * * When in England ,
* * * * at a fairly large conference, Colin Powell was asked by the
* * * * Archbishop of Canterbury if our plans for Iraq were just an
* * * * example of
* * * * 'empire building' by America.
* * * He answered by saying,
* * * "Over the years, the United States has sent many of
* * * its fine young men and women into great peril to fight for
* * * freedom
* * * beyond our borders. The only amount of land we have ever asked
* * * for
* * * in return is enough to bury those that did not
* * * return."
* * * You
* * * could have heard a pin drop.
* * * ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
* * * There was a conference in France
* * * where a number of international engineers
* * * were taking part, including French and American. During a
* * * break,
* * * one of the French engineers came back into the room saying,
* * * "Have you
* * * heard the latest dumb stunt America has done? They have sent
* * * an aircraft
* * * carrier to Indonesia to help the tsunami victims. What does he
* * * intend to do, bomb them?"
* * * A Boeing engineer
* * * stood up and replied quietly: "Our carriers have three
* * * hospitals on board that can treat several hundred people; they
* * * are
* * * nuclear powered and can supply emergency electrical power to
* * * shore facilities; they have three cafeterias with the capacity
* * * to
* * * feed 3,000 people three meals a day, they can produce several
* * * thousand
* * * gallons of fresh water from sea water each day, and they carry
* * * half a
* * * dozen helicopters for use in transporting victims and injured
* * * to and
* * * from their flight deck. We have eleven such ships;
* * * how many does France have?"
* * * You
* * * could have heard a pin drop.
* * * ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
* * * A U.S. Navy Admiral
* * * was attending a naval conference that included
* * * Admirals from the U.S., English, Canadian, Australian and
* * * French
* * * Navies At a cocktail reception, he found himself standing with
* * * a large
* * * group of officers that included personnel from most of those
* * * countries.
* * * Everyone was chatting away in English as they sipped their
* * * drinks but a
* * * French admiral suddenly complained that, whereas Europeans
* * * learn many
* * * languages, Americans learn only English. He then asked, "Why
* * * is it that
* * * we always have to speak English in these conferences rather
* * * than
* * * speaking French?"
* * * Without hesitating,
* * * the American Admiral replied, "Maybe it's because the
* * * Brits, Canadians, Aussies and Americans arranged it so you
* * * wouldn't
* * * have to speak German."
* * * You
* * * could have heard a pin drop.
* * * ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
* * * AND
* * * THIS STORY FITS RIGHT IN WITH THE ABOVE...
* * * Robert Whiting,
* * * an elderly gentleman of 83, arrived in Paris by plane.
* * * At French Customs, he took a few minutes to locate his
* * * passport
* * * in his carry on.
* * * "You
* * * have been to France before, monsieur?" the customs officer
* * * asked
* * * sarcastically.
* * * Mr. Whiting
* * * admitted that he had been to France
* * * previously.
* * * "Then
* * * you should know enough to have your passport ready."
* * * The American said,
* * * "The last time I was here, I didn't have to show it."
* * * "Impossible..
* * * Americans always have to show their passports on arrival in
* * * France !"
* * * The American senior
* * * gave the Frenchman a long hard look. Then he
* * * quietly explained, ''Well, when I came ashore at Omaha Beach
* * * on D-Day in
* * * 1944 to help liberate this country, I couldn't find a single
* * * Frenchmen
* * * to show a passport to."
* * * You
* * * could have heard a pin drop.
* * * ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
* * * If
* * * you are proud to be an American, pass this on! If not, delete
* * * it.
* * * I am proud to be of this land, AMERICA
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HEAR THE PIN DROP
* * * FOOD FOR THOUGHT........
* * * * * * * * At a time when our president and other politicians
* * * * * * * * seem to apologize for our country's prior actions,
* * * * * * * * here's a refresher on how some of our former
* * * * * * * * patriots handled negative comments about our
* * * * * * * * country.
* * * * * * * * JFK'S
* * * * * * * * Secretary of State, Dean Rusk, was in France in the
* * * * * * * * early 60's when
* * * * * * * * DeGaulle decided to pull out of NATO. DeGaulle said
* * * * * * * * he wanted all US
* * * * * * * * military out of France as soon as possible.
* * * * * * * * Rusk responded,
* * * * * * * * "Does that include those who are buried here?"
* * * * * * * DeGaulle
* * * * * * * did not respond.
* * * * * * You
* * * * * could have heard a pin drop.
* * * * When in England ,
* * * * at a fairly large conference, Colin Powell was asked by the
* * * * Archbishop of Canterbury if our plans for Iraq were just an
* * * * example of
* * * * 'empire building' by America.
* * * He answered by saying,
* * * "Over the years, the United States has sent many of
* * * its fine young men and women into great peril to fight for
* * * freedom
* * * beyond our borders. The only amount of land we have ever asked
* * * for
* * * in return is enough to bury those that did not
* * * return."
* * * You
* * * could have heard a pin drop.
* * * ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
* * * There was a conference in France
* * * where a number of international engineers
* * * were taking part, including French and American. During a
* * * break,
* * * one of the French engineers came back into the room saying,
* * * "Have you
* * * heard the latest dumb stunt America has done? They have sent
* * * an aircraft
* * * carrier to Indonesia to help the tsunami victims. What does he
* * * intend to do, bomb them?"
* * * A Boeing engineer
* * * stood up and replied quietly: "Our carriers have three
* * * hospitals on board that can treat several hundred people; they
* * * are
* * * nuclear powered and can supply emergency electrical power to
* * * shore facilities; they have three cafeterias with the capacity
* * * to
* * * feed 3,000 people three meals a day, they can produce several
* * * thousand
* * * gallons of fresh water from sea water each day, and they carry
* * * half a
* * * dozen helicopters for use in transporting victims and injured
* * * to and
* * * from their flight deck. We have eleven such ships;
* * * how many does France have?"
* * * You
* * * could have heard a pin drop.
* * * ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
* * * A U.S. Navy Admiral
* * * was attending a naval conference that included
* * * Admirals from the U.S., English, Canadian, Australian and
* * * French
* * * Navies At a cocktail reception, he found himself standing with
* * * a large
* * * group of officers that included personnel from most of those
* * * countries.
* * * Everyone was chatting away in English as they sipped their
* * * drinks but a
* * * French admiral suddenly complained that, whereas Europeans
* * * learn many
* * * languages, Americans learn only English. He then asked, "Why
* * * is it that
* * * we always have to speak English in these conferences rather
* * * than
* * * speaking French?"
* * * Without hesitating,
* * * the American Admiral replied, "Maybe it's because the
* * * Brits, Canadians, Aussies and Americans arranged it so you
* * * wouldn't
* * * have to speak German."
* * * You
* * * could have heard a pin drop.
* * * ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
* * * AND
* * * THIS STORY FITS RIGHT IN WITH THE ABOVE...
* * * Robert Whiting,
* * * an elderly gentleman of 83, arrived in Paris by plane.
* * * At French Customs, he took a few minutes to locate his
* * * passport
* * * in his carry on.
* * * "You
* * * have been to France before, monsieur?" the customs officer
* * * asked
* * * sarcastically.
* * * Mr. Whiting
* * * admitted that he had been to France
* * * previously.
* * * "Then
* * * you should know enough to have your passport ready."
* * * The American said,
* * * "The last time I was here, I didn't have to show it."
* * * "Impossible..
* * * Americans always have to show their passports on arrival in
* * * France !"
* * * The American senior
* * * gave the Frenchman a long hard look. Then he
* * * quietly explained, ''Well, when I came ashore at Omaha Beach
* * * on D-Day in
* * * 1944 to help liberate this country, I couldn't find a single
* * * Frenchmen
* * * to show a passport to."
* * * You
* * * could have heard a pin drop.
* * * ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
* * * If
* * * you are proud to be an American, pass this on! If not, delete
* * * it.
* * * I am proud to be of this land, AMERICA
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