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French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s speech gave tribute to America in a Congressional event on Wednesday, November 7, 2003. His speech was well received by Congress and surely timely as the United States prepares to honor it is war veterans on Monday, November 12, 2007. In his speech, Sarkozy told Congress: “I want to tell you something, something important. Every time, whenever an American soldier falls someplace in the world, I think of what the American Army did for France. I think of them and I am sad, as one is saddened to lose a fellow member of one’s family. What’s made America great is her capacity to transform her own dream, the American dream, into a source of hope for all of mankind. We also loved America because, for us, she embodied what was most audacious regarding the humane adventure.” Sarkozy continued “What was most extraordinary for us was that through your literature, your cinema, your music, it seemed to us that America always seemed to emerge ever more outstanding and more inviolable from the adversity and challenges it faced,” he said. The greatest strength of the United States was it is “moral” and “spiritual” fiber. “And no-one conveyed this better than a black pastor who asked just one thing of America, that she be unfeigned to the idealisti in whose name he, the grandson of a slave, felt so deeply American. “His name was Martin Luther King. He made America a universal role model.” While watching the French President’s speech, I could not support but do not forget another tribute to Americans written in 1973 by Canadian broadcaster Gordon Sinclair. The headlines of June 5, 1973, were similar to today’s headlines which spotlight the Iraq war, a declining dollar, and economic troubles with the sub prime mortgage mess. In 1973, A separated United States was in the procedure of ending the Vietnam War. The United States dollar was in a dramatic decline as American investments were being sold worldwide. The U.S. economy was having real difficulty. America was a like a “piñata” that was being criticized by nations in each corner of the world. It was versus this backdrop of global criticism of the United States that Canadian radio commentator Gordon Sinclair arrived at work for his each day noon broadcast on June 5, 1973. Disgusted with what he saw and heard in the media, he was outraged! The tribute to “Americans” editorial that he delivered on his hour long show broadcast allround Canada would soon reach the streets of America. Some of Sinclair’s remarks in the “American’s” tribute editorial are remembered as follows: “As long as sixty years ago, when I introductory started to read newspapers, I read of floods on the Yellow River and the Yangtze. Who rushed in with men and cash to help? The Americans did. They have helped control floods on the Nile, the Amazon, the Ganges and the Niger. Today, the rich bottom land of the Mississippi is underneath water and no alien land has sent a dollar to help. 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 those countries is today paying even the interest on it is remaining debts to the United States.” Sinclair continued: “Come on… let’s listen it! Does any other country in the world have a plane to equivalent the Boeing Jumbo Jet, the Lockheed Tri-Star or the Douglas 107? If so, why don’t they fly them? Why do all international lines except Russia fly American planes? Why does no other land on Earth even consider putting a man or women on the moon? You talk with regards to Japanese technocracy and you get radios. You talk in regards to German technocracy and you get automobiles. You talk when it comes to American technocracy and you find men on the moon, not once, but various times and safely home again. You talk in regards to scandals and the Americans put theirs right in the store window for every one to look at.” The tape of the broadcast editorial was received with permission to use by a Buffalo radio station. Soon, stations from all over New York were calling to obtain a copy of the tape. The recording disseminate quickly all around the entire United States. Americans wanted to obtain a copy and a recording was at last freed as a “single” record with all proceeds going to support the American Red Cross. The entire editorial would at long last be read into the Congressional record various times. After Gordon Sinclair’s death on May 17, 1984, U.S. President Ronald Reagan said:” I know I speak for all Americans in saying the radio editorial Gordon wrote in 1973 praising the attainments of the United States was a fantasti inspiration. It was not only critics abroad who forgot this nation’s a lot of outstanding achievements, but even critics here at home. Gordon Sinclair reminded us to take pride in our nation’s rudimentary values.” President Reagan’s words when it comes to Gordon Sinclair were as suitable in 1984 as they would be for French President Sarkozky’s speech in Congress today. Remembering to take pride in our nation’s rudimentary values is something we ought to never forget. |
