We are dedicating this page to the friends and families of those killed or injured during the cowardly attack on an innocent American civilian population on 9/11/01; also to the rescue workers and volunteers who have given so much of themselves to help during this tragedy - some have given all.

My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, Commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions, loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next. 

~ Maximus in "Gladiator" ~

We received this memorial from several people.  Kaylin Cherry of RF4RP for one. 

http://arstechnica.com/wankerdesk/01q3/war/index.html

The world mourns with the US

For all of us, with no words.
Gaby
Buenos Aires, Argentina
From Garden of Friendship

Here's an article that is making the email rounds.  It was first broadcast in 1973 and you can read the whole story HERE and HERE as well as hear the original broadcast.

The Americans

This Canadian thinks it is time to speak up for the Americans as most generous and possibly the least appreciated people on all the earth. 

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 these countries is today paying even the interest on its remaining debts to the United States. 

When the franc was in danger of collapsing in 1956, it was the Americans who propped it up, and their reward was to be insulted and swindled on the streets of Paris. I was there. I saw it. When distant cities are hit by earthquakes, it is the United States that hurries in to help. This spring, 59 American communities were flattened by tornadoes. Nobody helped. 

The Marshall Plan and the Truman Policy pumped billions of dollars into discouraged countries. Now newspapers in those countries are writing about the decadent, warmongering Americans. I'd like to see just one of those countries that is gloating over the erosion of the United States Dollar build its own airplane. Does any other country in the world have a plane to equal the Boeing Jumbo Jet, the Lockheed Tri-Star, or the Douglas 10? If so, why don't they fly them? Why do all the International lines except Russia fly American planes? 

Why does no other land on earth even consider putting a man or woman on the moon? You talk about Japanese technocracy, and you get radios. You talk about German technocracy, and you get automobiles. You talk about American technocracy, and you find men on the moon - - not once, but several times - and safely home again. 

You talk about scandals, and the Americans put theirs right in the store window for everybody to look at. Even their draft-dodgers are not pursued and hounded. They are here on our streets, and most of them, unless they are breaking Canadian laws, are getting American dollars from ma and pa at home to spend here. 

When the railways of France, Germany and India were breaking down through age, it was the American who rebuilt them. When the Pennsylvania Railroad and the New York Central went broke, nobody loaned them an old caboose. Both are still broke. 

I can name you 5,000 times when the Americans raced to the help of other people in trouble. Can you name me even one time when someone else raced to the Americans in trouble? I don't think there was outside help even during the San Francisco earthquake. 

Our neighbors have faced it alone, and I'm one Canadian who is damned tired of hearing them get kicked around. They will come out of this thing with their flag high. And when they do, they are entitled to thumb their nose at the lands that are gloating over their present troubles. I hope Canada is not one of those. 

The full story as he wrote it is here, as well as an audio link where you can hear him telling it. It also has a song that I have no doubt is near and dear to all Americans playing in the background:

Circumstances : http://www.rcc.ryerson.ca/ccf/news/unique/american.html
Full Text : http://www.rcc.ryerson.ca/ccf/news/unique/am_text.html
Sinclair Bio : http://www.rcc.ryerson.ca/ccf/personal/hof/sincla_g.html

From Jo at Jazzltubes list

From: Darcdon@home.com
Name: Darcee
Region: Kitchener. Ontario. Canada
Subject: A Canadian Tribute / Gordon Sinclair

body: Hi! I just want to set the record straight regarding the above mentioned Tribute to Americans by The Late Gordon Sinclair. 

Yes, he did write it and Canadians thought and still think that like most of his work, he did a beautiful job of pointing out the moral high-ground that Americans so often have taken but do not so often get the credit they have earned from folks who have benefited from acts of great generosity. 

Sadly they seem to forget the act of loyalty that should follow acts of friendship.

BUT, as a Canadian I am ticked off by the reverse propaganda coming our way through the circulation of a document that has been augmented and expanded upon to fit the situation and to make a point that is less then valid and highly exploitive. Gordon Sinclair died in 1984 and did not write in reference to the Okalahoma bombing because he was dead! 

We Canadians like to think that he would of been proud of our contribution which was extensive both financially and in every other way as well

Again this week, we have sent many professionals to NY as requested for grief counseling and for other functions as well. To list them all would be over kill. Suffice it to say that we are doing everything possible to help our neighbors and friends. We have just recently emptied our airports of the passengers from 230 airplanes that needed to land somewhere on Tuesday. 

Canadians heard Gordon when he wrote his commentary in regards to the Viet Nam War. We listen and learn, we have done our lessons well and actually we are rather well informed in all areas of our Southern Neighbors lives and tribulations. Our hearts are broken and we are in great pain for both the Americans and Canadians that have lost their loved ones. 

We have watched the terror with horror.

To see that kind of negative hogwash floating around to suggest that Canadians do not aid in the US's sorrows is counter productive and hurtful at a time when we are all hurting more then seems bearable. Please be kind to us all and remove it from circulation when ever you can because this is not a good time to be forgetting to thank and love each other.

Thank you and God Bless us ALL.

Note:  Yes, our Canadian neighbors have been good friends to the US.  

However, the article that Mr. Sinclair wrote in 1973 is as appropriate today as it was when I first heard it during the Viet Nam War. 

Most nations in the world, other than Canada, have both hands out wanting American gold.  And the US is extremely generous when it comes to giving to other countries.  

These same nations preach hatred for our country to their own people.  And none of them has ever offered to help us in times of crises - 

until now.

The attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon has brought the World community together like no other single event in the course of human history.  The out-pouring of love and offers of help have never before been extended to the US by so many other nations in the world. 

Mr. Sinclair's excellent commentary helps to put the events of today into historical perspective.

I have not seen the plagiarized version which speaks of the Oklahoma bombing.  But, I would agree that anyone receiving a copy of that version should hit DELETE and not forward it to anyone else. 

From Pat at Jazzl tubes list

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