Thankyou Australia

This is an absolutely beautiful tribute to our United States of  America.  Say what you may ~ we still have the best country in the  world.  I thought this to be worthy of passing on.  And an Australian wrote it.   Many people love America - many people don't.  But it is what it is and  we are blessed (my humble opinion). Written by an Australian Dentist....and too good to  delete.... To Kill an American 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. < BR> 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. Please keep this  going! Pass  this around the World ? Then  pass it around again. It says  it all, for all of us And did you know, Australia is the only country  that has stood by the United States through all  wars?