God Bless The U.S.A.: Can You Hear The Pin Drop?
When in England , at a fairly large conference, Colin Powell was askedby the Archbishop of Canterbury if our plans for Iraq were just an example of 'empire building' by George Bush. 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 abreak, one of the French engineers came back into the room saying 'Have youheard the latest dumb stunt Bush has done? He has sent an aircraft carrierto Indonesia to help the tsunami victims. What does he intend to do, bomb them?' A Boeing engineer stood up and replied quietly: 'Our carriers havethree 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 fromtheir 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 FrenchNavies. 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 buta French admiral suddenly complained that, whereas Europeans learn many languages, Americans learn only English.' He then asked, 'Why is itthat we always have to speak English in these conferences rather thanspeaking French?' Without hesitating, the American Admiral replied 'Maybe it's becausethe Brits, Canadians, Aussies and Americans arranged it so you wouldn'thave 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 officerasked sarcastically. Mr. Whiting admitted that he had been to Francepreviously. Then you should know enough to have your passport ready.' The American said, ''The last time I was here, I didn't have toshowit. 'Impossible. Americans always have to show your passports on arrivalin France !' The American senior gave the Frenchman a long hard look. Then hequietly explained, ''Well, when I came ashore at Omaha Beach on D-Day in1944 to help liberate this country, I couldn't find a single Frenchmen to show a passport to.' You could have heard a pin drop.
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Do you know what a paragraph is......? My eyes are bleeding XD
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I don't bother with copy and paste jobs.
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God bless America! God bless Dwight D. Eisenhower! God bless the Department of Defense! God bless America's inability to be wrong in ANY circumstance! God bless the Federal Government! God bless paper money! God bless carpet-bombing! God bless AMERICA!
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America is already blessed by God.
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The rational person asked the delusional believer, "Do you have any evidence of any kind that your god is real, or that he "blesses" anybody or anything?" You could have heard a pin drop. Peace.
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That was very touching and beautiful. No one seems to realize America actually does have a good side and that helped show it. Thanks.
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