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by Joseph M.J. Sanlei

Today, if you are.reading this article on Thursday the 22nd of Novenber, is Thanksgiving Day in the United States. I feel that this year, as I did last,

I have satething for which to give thanks that most ‘ of my comtrynen take entirely for granted. Canada! Yes, Canada, this magnificent realm of Free People; this majestic geographic domain; this tribute to the highest aspirations, realized and as of yet unfulfilled, of humankind; this Northern "friend" who has grown-up with my country, and who together with the Anerican ' States has, unlike the corrupt Old World from Whid'l our people fled, established upon this continent a man-made inter— natimal cathedral of itself, dedicated to the proposition that men and women of different nations can break together the bread of peace and drink together cf the cup of prosperity. In the words of' the late John Diefen— baker, "Our peoples are North Americans. We are children of our geography; products of the sane hopes, faith, and dreams."

Together our peoples \

claimed the wilderness and

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tarred a frontier;

together ,

carrying Bibles and dreams, we North Americans, moved

by our commn pioneer

spirit, farmed land never ' '

before tilled, built our cities, and created a‘

truly New‘World upon this continent and dedicated it

to human freedcm. Today we

are the targets of corpor-

ations, as well as

individuals, who Would rob

from us our Sacred Liberty. The greatest

weapon of those whose only motivation is selfish greed

is the dimlsion of" the

Canadian and Anerican people

by exploitation of lies

and misconceptions. The contemporary struggle is one no less difficult or

dangerous than the struggles ' of our pioneer ancestors. \ We must remember to face

the difficulties of our age together, for only with the

I historical unity of the

Canadian and American

peoples can we fight against

the foe who would drive a wedge between us to divide

us for the conquest.

no lodging in the hearts of North Americans upon

Bitter- ' ness and hatred must find

whose heads peace and unity

have placed the crowning glory of the greatest

civilization in the history

of the world. We have

never shed each others blood; let us forever

harbor nothing but respect

’ shall forever be consecrated

E to the abiding

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APTHE UPEI SUN, Thursday, November 22, 1979; page 12

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ON THE UNIVERSITY RIGHT

Canadians joined with their American brothers and sisters in mourning a horrible act of treason and terrorism. While riding * in an open car through the . streets of Dallas, Texas, on this date in 1963, America's young president, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was murdered by an assassin's bullet. It is, thus, fitting indeed that . in this article I include ' the words of the slain president, spoken ’on this very topic, So many years ago in Ottawa. He said, "Geography has made us I neighbors; _ History has made us friends." Weare git foreigners to I each other, but friends.

We are not strangers in , each others lamb, but can be’as at hate as if we never ventured frun hate

at all, and perhaps those of who traverse the 49th . parallel never really did travel fron hare - for. this continent i_s_ our home,

and as Diefenbaker had said, we are its children . So thank you,‘Canada. This is one Merican who, this \ Thanksgiving Day, will give thanks for his Northern cousins. long friendship and mity of our people!. Together our _ destiny is certain. To—, ' gether no force on earth can long stand against us.

for each other. In the tragic wars of this most violent century, which the old and violent world had foisted upon us, we joined forces to crush the barbarous enemy. Fields throughout the world

with Canadian and Anerican blood,'spi11ed in a comm cause and eternally giving '

unity of our two noble , peoples. In struggle and adversity against nature ‘ and hunan foe alike, we have forged a bond miqte in all the world. Let'us gym»; in peace and prosperity, destroy through Self- ’ righteouslieSS and bigotry what cane at so high a price to those who have gone before. 'lhere is a sign whid1 greets many a‘ traveller between the Yukm Territory and Alaska that can say better than what , in my writing , I am ,attenpting to express: ‘ "'lhis unfortified boundary, between the Dominion of Canada and the United States of Anerica, should quicken the remen'brance of the more than a century old friend- ship bebneen these count? ries — A lesson of peace to all nations."

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