<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body dir="auto"><b>From:</b> Lee Pedersen <salemmotorsport@yahoo.com><br><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><b>Date:</b> September 10, 2021 at 10:16:42 PM PDT<br><br></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div id="ydpd091b3e0yahoo_quoted_1388170058" class="ydpd091b3e0yahoo_quoted"><div style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:#26282a;"><div><div id="ydpd091b3e0yiv8716869735"><div class="ydpd091b3e0yiv8716869735WordSection1"><div><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt;"><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt;word-spacing:0px;"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div id="ydpd091b3e0yiv8716869735m_8968137966307674297m_395072799621928173m_-5824771543140941199m_-2182979435504593814yiv8395175806"><blockquote 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cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="left" width="34%" style="width:34.0%;border-collapse:collapse;margin-left:6.75pt;margin-right:6.75pt;"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;"></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div><div><p class="ydpd091b3e0yiv8716869735MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;"><br></span><strong><i><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Papyrus;color:maroon;">Written by an Australian Dentist</span></i></strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;"><br><strong><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;color:#26282A;"> </span></strong><span class="ydpd091b3e0yiv8716869735apple-converted-space"><b><span style="color:#26282A;"> </span></b></span><strong><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;"> </span></strong></span><strong><i><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Papyrus;color:#26282A;">To Kill an American</span></i></strong><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;"> </span></strong><span class="ydpd091b3e0yiv8716869735apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;"> </span></b></span><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;color:#26282A;"> </span></strong><span class="ydpd091b3e0yiv8716869735apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#26282A;"> </span></b></span></p></div><div><table class="ydpd091b3e0yiv8716869735MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="left" width="34%" style="width:34.0%;border-collapse:collapse;margin-left:6.75pt;margin-right:6.75pt;"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;"></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div><div><p class="ydpd091b3e0yiv8716869735MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;"><br></span><strong><i><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Papyrus;color:#26282A;">You probably missed this in the</span></i></strong><strong><i><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;color:#26282A;"> </span></i></strong><strong><i><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Papyrus;color:#26282A;">rush of news, 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.</span></i></strong><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;"> </span></strong><span class="ydpd091b3e0yiv8716869735apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;"> </span></b></span><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;color:#26282A;"> </span></strong></p></div><div><table class="ydpd091b3e0yiv8716869735MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="left" width="34%" style="width:34.0%;border-collapse:collapse;margin-left:6.75pt;margin-right:6.75pt;"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;"></td></tr></tbody></table></div></blockquote></div><div><p class="ydpd091b3e0yiv8716869735MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;"><br></span><strong><i><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Papyrus;color:#26282A;">So an Australian dentist wrote an editorial the following day to let everyone know what an American is. So they would know when they met one. (Good one, mate!!!!)</span></i></strong><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;color:#26282A;"> </span></strong></p></div><div><table class="ydpd091b3e0yiv8716869735MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="left" width="34%" style="width:34.0%;border-collapse:collapse;margin-left:6.75pt;margin-right:6.75pt;"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;"></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div><div><p class="ydpd091b3e0yiv8716869735MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;"><br></span><strong><i><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Papyrus;color:#26282A;">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.</span></i></strong><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;color:#26282A;"> </span></strong></p></div><div><table class="ydpd091b3e0yiv8716869735MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="left" width="34%" style="width:34.0%;border-collapse:collapse;margin-left:6.75pt;margin-right:6.75pt;"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;"></td></tr></tbody></table></div></blockquote></div><div><p class="ydpd091b3e0yiv8716869735MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;"><br></span><strong><i><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Papyrus;color:#26282A;">An American may also be a Comanche, Cherokee, Osage, Blackfoot, Navaho, Apache, Seminole or one of the many other tribes known as native Americans.</span></i></strong><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;"> </span></strong><span class="ydpd091b3e0yiv8716869735apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;"> </span></b></span><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;color:#26282A;"> </span></strong></p></div><div><table class="ydpd091b3e0yiv8716869735MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="left" width="34%" style="width:34.0%;border-collapse:collapse;margin-left:6.75pt;margin-right:6.75pt;"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;"></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div><div><p class="ydpd091b3e0yiv8716869735MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;"><br></span><strong><i><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Papyrus;color:#26282A;">An American is Christian, or he could be Jewish, or Buddhist, or Muslim. In fact, there are more Muslims in America than in</span></i></strong><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;"> </span></strong><span class="ydpd091b3e0yiv8716869735apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;"> </span></b></span><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;color:#26282A;"> </span></strong><span class="ydpd091b3e0yiv8716869735apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#26282A;"> </span></b></span><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;"> </span></strong><strong><i><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Papyrus;color:#26282A;">Afghanistan. The only difference is that in America they are free to worship as each of them chooses.</span></i></strong></p></div><div><table class="ydpd091b3e0yiv8716869735MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="left" width="34%" style="width:34.0%;border-collapse:collapse;margin-left:6.75pt;margin-right:6.75pt;"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;"></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div><div><p class="ydpd091b3e0yiv8716869735MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;"><br></span><strong><i><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Papyrus;color:#26282A;">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.</span></i></strong></p></div><div><table class="ydpd091b3e0yiv8716869735MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="left" width="34%" style="width:34.0%;border-collapse:collapse;margin-left:6.75pt;margin-right:6.75pt;"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;"></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div><div><p class="ydpd091b3e0yiv8716869735MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;"><br></span><strong><i><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Papyrus;color:#26282A;">An American lives in the most prosperous land in</span></i></strong><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;"> </span></strong><strong><i><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Papyrus;color:#26282A;">the history of the world.</span></i></strong></p></div><div><table class="ydpd091b3e0yiv8716869735MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="left" width="34%" style="width:34.0%;border-collapse:collapse;margin-left:6.75pt;margin-right:6.75pt;"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;"></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div><div><p class="ydpd091b3e0yiv8716869735MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;"><br></span><strong><i><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Papyrus;color:maroon;">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.</span></i></strong><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;color:#26282A;"> </span></strong></p></div><div><table class="ydpd091b3e0yiv8716869735MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="left" width="34%" style="width:34.0%;border-collapse:collapse;margin-left:6.75pt;margin-right:6.75pt;"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;"></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div><p class="ydpd091b3e0yiv8716869735MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;"><br></span><strong><i><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Papyrus;color:#26282A;">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.</span></i></strong></p><div><table class="ydpd091b3e0yiv8716869735MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="left" width="34%" style="width:34.0%;border-collapse:collapse;margin-left:6.75pt;margin-right:6.75pt;"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;"></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div><p class="ydpd091b3e0yiv8716869735MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;"><br></span><strong><i><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Papyrus;color:#26282A;">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!</span></i></strong></p><div><table class="ydpd091b3e0yiv8716869735MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="left" width="34%" style="width:34.0%;border-collapse:collapse;margin-left:6.75pt;margin-right:6.75pt;"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;"></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div><p class="ydpd091b3e0yiv8716869735MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;"><br></span><strong><i><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Papyrus;color:#26282A;">As of the morning of September 11, Americans had given more than any other nation to the poor in Afghanistan .</span></i></strong></p></div><div><table class="ydpd091b3e0yiv8716869735MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="left" width="34%" style="width:34.0%;border-collapse:collapse;margin-left:6.75pt;margin-right:6.75pt;"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;"></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div><p class="ydpd091b3e0yiv8716869735MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;"><br></span><strong><i><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Papyrus;color:#26282A;">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.</span></i></strong></p></div><div><table class="ydpd091b3e0yiv8716869735MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="left" width="34%" style="width:34.0%;border-collapse:collapse;margin-left:6.75pt;margin-right:6.75pt;"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;"></td></tr></tbody></table></div><p class="ydpd091b3e0yiv8716869735MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><div><table class="ydpd091b3e0yiv8716869735MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="left" width="34%" style="width:34.0%;border-collapse:collapse;margin-left:6.75pt;margin-right:6.75pt;"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;"></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div><p class="ydpd091b3e0yiv8716869735MsoNormal"><strong><i><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Papyrus;color:#26282A;">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.</span></i></strong></p></div><div><table class="ydpd091b3e0yiv8716869735MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="left" width="34%" style="width:34.0%;border-collapse:collapse;margin-left:6.75pt;margin-right:6.75pt;"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;"></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div><p class="ydpd091b3e0yiv8716869735MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;"><br></span><strong><i><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Papyrus;color:maroon;">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.</span></i></strong></p></div><div><table class="ydpd091b3e0yiv8716869735MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="left" width="34%" style="width:34.0%;border-collapse:collapse;margin-left:6.75pt;margin-right:6.75pt;"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;"></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div><p class="ydpd091b3e0yiv8716869735MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;"><br></span><strong><i><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Papyrus;color:#26282A;">Please keep this going!</span></i></strong><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;"> </span></strong><span class="ydpd091b3e0yiv8716869735apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;"> </span></b></span><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;color:#26282A;"> </span></strong><span class="ydpd091b3e0yiv8716869735apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#26282A;"> </span></b></span><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;"> </span></strong></p></div><div><table class="ydpd091b3e0yiv8716869735MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="left" width="34%" style="width:34.0%;border-collapse:collapse;margin-left:6.75pt;margin-right:6.75pt;"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;"></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div><p class="ydpd091b3e0yiv8716869735MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;"><br></span><strong><i><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Papyrus;color:#26282A;">Pass this around the World</span></i></strong><strong><i><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Papyrus;color:#26282A;">.</span></i></strong><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;color:#26282A;"> </span></strong><span class="ydpd091b3e0yiv8716869735apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#26282A;"> </span></b></span><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;"> </span></strong></p></div><div><table class="ydpd091b3e0yiv8716869735MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="left" width="34%" style="width:34.0%;border-collapse:collapse;margin-left:6.75pt;margin-right:6.75pt;"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;"></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div><p class="ydpd091b3e0yiv8716869735MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;"><br></span><strong><i><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Papyrus;color:#26282A;">Then pass it around again. It says it all, for all of us.</span></i></strong><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;"> </span></strong><span class="ydpd091b3e0yiv8716869735apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;"> </span></b></span><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;color:#26282A;"> </span></strong><span class="ydpd091b3e0yiv8716869735apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#26282A;"> </span></b></span><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;"> </span></strong></p></div><div><table class="ydpd091b3e0yiv8716869735MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="left" width="34%" style="width:34.0%;border-collapse:collapse;margin-left:6.75pt;margin-right:6.75pt;"><tbody><tr><td width="100%" style="width:100.0%;padding:1.5pt 1.5pt 1.5pt 1.5pt;"><table class="ydpd091b3e0yiv8716869735MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="left" style="border-collapse:collapse;"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;"><table class="ydpd091b3e0yiv8716869735MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="border-collapse:collapse;"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;"><table class="ydpd091b3e0yiv8716869735MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="366" style="width:274.5pt;border-collapse:collapse;"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;"><table class="ydpd091b3e0yiv8716869735MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="border-collapse:collapse;"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;"></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div><p class="ydpd091b3e0yiv8716869735MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"><br><a href="http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=emailclient" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" fg_scanned="1"><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;"> </span></a></span></p></div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p class="ydpd091b3e0yiv8716869735MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><div><p class="ydpd091b3e0yiv8716869735MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p></div></div><div id="ydpd091b3e0yiv8716869735DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2"><div><p class="ydpd091b3e0yiv8716869735MsoNormal"> </p></div><table class="ydpd091b3e0yiv8716869735MsoNormalTable" border="1" cellpadding="0" style="border:none;border-top:solid #D3D4DE 1.0pt;"><tbody><tr><td width="55" style="width:41.25pt;border:none;padding:9.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt;"><div><p class="ydpd091b3e0yiv8716869735MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=emailclient&utm_term=icon" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" fg_scanned="1"><span style="border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;text-decoration:none;"><img border="0" width="46" height="29" style="width:.4791in;min-height:.302in;" id="ydpd091b3e0yiv8716869735Picture_x0020_1" alt="Image removed by sender." data-inlineimagemanipulating="true" src="cid:06014a6a-81c2-321c-407f-68b0ab1fe840@yahoo.com"></span></a></p></div></td><td width="470" style="width:352.5pt;border:none;padding:9.0pt .75pt .75pt .75pt;"><div><p class="ydpd091b3e0yiv8716869735MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:#41424E;">Virus-free.<span class="ydpd091b3e0yiv8716869735apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=emailclient&utm_term=link" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" fg_scanned="1"><span style="color:#4453EA;">www.avast.com</span></a></span></p></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></blockquote></blockquote></div><p class="ydpd091b3e0yiv8716869735MsoNormal"> </p></div></div></div>
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