You probably missed it in the rush of news last week,
but there was actually a report that someone in Pakistan
had published in a newspaper an offer of a reward to anyone
who killed an American, any American.

So an Australian dentist wrote an editorial the following
day to let everyone know what an American is so they would
know when they found one. (Good one, mate!!!!)

"An American is English, or French, or Italian, Irish,
German, Spanish, Polish, Russian or Greek. An American may
also be Canadian, Mexican, African, Indian, Chinese,
Japanese, Korean, Australian, Iranian, Asian, or Arab, or
Pakistani or Afghan.
An American may also be a Comanche, Cherokee, Osage,
Blackfoot, Navaho, Apache, Seminole or one of the many
other tribes known as native Americans.

An American is Christian, or he could be Jewish, or
Buddhist, or Muslim.

In fact, there are more Muslims in America than in
Afghanistan. The only difference is that in America they
are free to worship as each of them chooses.

An American is also free to believe in no religion. For
that he will answer only to God, not to the government, or
to armed thugs claiming to speak for the government and for
God.

An American lives in the most prosperous land in the
history of the world.

The root of that prosperity can be found in the
Declaration of
Independence, which recognizes the God given right of each
person to the pursuit of happiness.

An American is generous. Americans have helped out just
about every other nation in the world in their time of
need, never asking a thing in return.

When Afghanistan was over-run by the Soviet army 20 years
ago, Americans came with arms and supplies to enable the
people to win back their country!

As of the morning of September 11, Americans had given
more than any other nation to the poor in Afghanistan.
Americans welcome the best of everything...the best
products, the best books, the best music, the best food,
the best services. But they also welcome the least.

The national symbol of America, The Statue of Liberty,
welcomes your tired and your poor, the wretched refuse of
your teeming shores, the homeless, tempest tossed. These in
fact are the people who built America.


Some of them were working in the Twin Towers the morning
of September 11, 2001 earning a better life for their
families. It's been told that the World Trade Center
victims were from at least 30 different countries,
cultures, and first languages, including those that aided
and abetted the terrorists.

So you can try to kill an American if you must. Hitler
did. So did General Tojo, and Stalin, and Mao Tse-Tung, and
other blood-thirsty tyrants in the world. But, in doing so
you would just be killing yourself. Because Americans are
not a particular people from a particular place. They are
the embodiment of the human spirit of freedom. Everyone
who holds to that spirit, everywhere, is an American.

Thanks for posting!

welcome!

That's very cool.

wow, very cool =D

Awsome. Thanx for posting LJ! How's it going up in my favorite city?

thanks for posting that ...

thanks for the post

welcome guys..

It's been pretty nice considering it's mid January LNM!! lol

nice.....:-)

THANKY YA MISS SIMBA!!