What a nice gesture

Hi again,
Quite often I get annoyed with the comments and opinions of Americans about Canada and how often we are mocked or put down or just plain not understood. I am sure it has showed up in some of my posts. But I just saw something that someone posted on another website that showed me that not all Americans think so badly of us and took time to show the similarities between two countries that share a very long border. Here is the video that is quite touching and shows that shows Canada's qualities that we have known about all along and wished that Americans would see I think. Here is the link. Tom Brokaw Explains Canada To Americans.
Also an NBC anchor left quite a nice thank you note apparently for us Canadians after the Olympics were done that is also quite touching and funny. Here it is.
"Leaving behind a thank-you note
This is from the NBC Olympic anchorman:

Brian Williams, anchor and managing editor

After tonight's broadcast and after looting our hotel mini-bars, we're going to try to brave the blizzard and fly east to home and hearth, and to do laundry well into next week. Before we leave this thoroughly polite country, the polite thing to do is leave behind a thank-you note.

Thank you, Canada:

For being such good hosts.

For your unfailing courtesy.

For your (mostly) beautiful weather.

For scheduling no more than 60 percent of your float plane departures at the exact moment when I was trying to say something on television.

For not seeming to mind the occasional (or constant) good-natured mimicry of your accents.


For your unique TV commercials -- for companies like Tim Hortons -- which made us laugh and cry.

For securing this massive event without choking security, and without publicly displaying a single automatic weapon.

For having the best garment design and logo-wear of the games -- you've made wearing your name a cool thing to do.

For the sportsmanship we saw most of your athletes display.

For not honking your horns. I didn't hear one car horn in 15 days -- which also means none of my fellow New Yorkers rented cars while visiting.

For making us aware of how many of you have been watching NBC all these years.

For having the good taste to have an anchorman named Brian Williams on your CTV network, who turns out to be such a nice guy.

For the body scans at the airport which make pat-downs and cavity searches unnecessary.

For designing those really cool LED Olympic rings in the harbor, which turned to gold when your athletes won one.

For always saying nice things about the United States...when you know we're listening.

For sharing Joannie Rochette with us.

For reminding some of us we used to be a more civil society.
Mostly, for welcoming the world with such ease and making lasting friends with all of us."

I guess there are Americans who do not think badly of Canada after all! Maybe after these Olympics maybe, just maybe, there will be a few less Americans who put us Canadians down and realize we are a great country also. Maybe Americans thinking we are a great country is a little much to ask tho-even if they feel we are ok and they stop putting us down that would be a fine start in my books! lol Thanks for reading!