"Rich S." wrote in message
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I just received this via email, with the encouragement to "pass it on". I
can't think of a better audience.
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I've never wanted to be an American more than on that day. It was a time
when
many nations in the world looked to America as their big brother, a steady
and
even-handed beacon of security who navigated difficult political water
with
grace and style; not unlike the pilot who'd just flown into my memory. He
was
proud, not arrogant, humble, not a braggart, old and honest, projecting an
aura
of America at its best. That America will return one day, I know it will.

Until that time, I'll just send off this story; call it a reciprocal
salute,
to the old American pilot who wove a memory for a young Canadian that's
lasted a
lifetime.



Amen.

Jim