A Canadian, Gordon Sinclair (d1984) penned and delivered a moving piece regarding Americans (hey, that's us) back in 1973. 

It was picked up and made into a record by Byron MacGregor (d 1999) of CKLW, a radio station in Windsor, Ontario 

(the Canadian side of Detroit), and became the single largest selling spoken word recording of all time.

Every once in a while, I see parts of the script on the Internet. There is much, much more to that story, and here it is.........

Here is a link to a copy of the original script

http://www.rcc.ryerson.ca/ccf/news/unique/am_text.html

To a downloadable copy of Mr. MacGregors recording

http://www.schedulestar.com/anonftp/byronmacgregoramericans.mp3

One more of Interest

http://www.snopes.com/quotes/sinclair.htm

So, nearly three decades later, the words and, hopefull,  the sentiment still ring true.

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