Cassius Clay?????

Show some respect please!!!!!


>From: Michel Margosis <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: An ode to America
>Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2001 23:55:22 -0500
>
>Received another beautiful message from my daughter Leah.....
>with love,
>Michel
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>When you think the U.S. isn't thought well of all over the world, read this
>editorial from a Romanian Newspaper.
>
>FROM ROMANIA:  RECOGNITION (AND ENVY) OF THE AMERICAN ETHOS AND ÉLAN
>
>An ode to America
>
>Why are Americans so united?  They don't resemble one another even if you
>paint them!  They speak all the languages of the world and form an
>astonishing mixture of civilizations. Some of them are nearly extinct,
>others are incompatible with one another, and in matters of religious
>beliefs, not even God can count how many they are.
>
>Still, the American tragedy turned three hundred million people into a hand
>put on the heart. Nobody rushed to accuse the White House, the army, or the
>secret services that they are only a bunch of losers.  Nobody rushed to
>empty their bank accounts.  Nobody rushed on the streets nearby to gape
>about.  The Americans volunteered to donate blood and to give a helping
>hand.  After the first moments of panic, they raised the flag on the
>smoking
>ruins, putting on T-shirts, caps and ties in the colors of the national
>flag.  They placed flags on buildings and cars as if in every place and on
>every car a minister or the president was passing.  On every occasion they
>started singing their traditional song: "God Bless America!".
>
>Silent as a rock, I watched the charity concert broadcast on Saturday once,
>twice, three times, on different TV channels. There were Clint Eastwood,
>Willie Nelson, Robert de Niro, Julia Roberts, Cassius Clay, Jack Nicholson,
>Bruce Springsteen, Silvester Stalone, James Wood, and many others whom no
>film or producers could ever bring together. The American's solidarity
>spirit turned them into a choir.  Actually, choir is not the word.  What
>you
>could hear was the heavy artillery of the American soul.  What neither
>George W. Bush, nor Bill Clinton, nor Colin Powell could say without
>  facing the risk of stumbling over words and sounds, was being heard in a
>great and unmistakable way in this charity concert.
>
>I don't know how it happened that all this obsessive singing of America
>didn't sound croaky, nationalist, or ostentatious!  It made you green with
>envy because you weren't able to sing for your country without running the
>risk of being considered chauvinist, ridiculous, or suspected of who
>knows-what mean interests.
>
>I watched the live broadcast and the rerun of its rerun for hours listening
>to the story of the guy who went down one hundred floors with a woman in a
>wheelchair without knowing who she was, or of the Californian hockey
>player,
>who fought with the terrorists and prevented the plane from hitting a
>target
>that would have killed other hundreds or thousands of people.  How on earth
>were they able to bow before a fellow human?  Imperceptibly, with every
>word
>and musical note, the memory of some turned into a modern myth of tragic
>heroes.  And with every phone call, millions and millions of dollars were
>put in a collection aimed at rewarding not a man or a family, but a spirit
>which nothing can buy.
>
>What on earth can unite the Americans in such a way?  Their land?  Their
>galloping history?  Their economic power?  Money?  I tried for hours to
>find
>an answer, humming songs and murmuring phrases which risk of sounding like
>commonplaces.  I thought things over, but I reached only one
>conclusion.
>
>Only freedom can work such miracles!
>
>
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>Michel Margosis
>7442 Spring Village Drive, # 224
>Springfield,  VA.  22150-4444
>703-569-2630
>
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