Tribute to the US post 9/11/2001. This is another special edition of the SeniorSSuperStoreS.com Keeping in Touch newsletter. Please bear with us because it is not our intention to spam you by any means. Rather, we know how much the American spirit means to Prime Time Adults. Please feel free to forward this message as you wish.

While we will never forget our fallen comrades, already this great nation has gotten back to business, proving to the faceless cowards who attacked us that our pursuit of peace and prosperity can NEVER be stopped.

As the Senate announced today it has authorized "all necessary and appropriate force against terrorism," internet communities and the rest of America brace for a situation that will certainly get worse before it gets better.

Our hearts go out to all the victims and their families.

Like the rest of the businesses in this industry, we are doing all that we are able to keep to the task at hand while, as dedicated Americans and concerned citizens, we keep an ear to the radio in the background, the conversations around the water cooler and the concerns and fears of our children, our families and our friends. This is a scary time for all of us; but as the shock and fear subside, we hope for a new resolve for our Nation.

Let us remember the words of George Orwell when he said, "We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm." And, for the men and women standing ready, we thank you.

Most of our readers and the customers of SeniorSSuperStoreS.com are old enough to remember the following piece, but we thought circumstances are appropriate to repeat it here today. It was originally published in 1974, but has significance even today:

TRIBUTE TO THE UNITED STATES

This, from a Canadian newspaper, is worth sharing. America: The Good Neighbor. Widespread but only partial news coverage was given recently to a remarkable editorial broadcast from Toronto by Gordon Sinclair, a Canadian television commentator. What follows is the full text of his trenchant remarks as printed in the Congressional Record:

"This Canadian thinks it is time to speak up for the Americans as the 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 France 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 earthquakes hit distant cities, 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, war mongering 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 DC10?

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 Americans 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 5000 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 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."

Our editorial comment:
Yes, we realize that, after some 27 years, the world environment has changed. But, America's position in the world economy, technology, and now, spirit hasn't. Our hope and prayer is that the rest of the sane world will come to our aid as we set out to rid the world of the insanity that we faced this week.

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