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