Re: Do non-U.S. Christians say "God Bless America?" (fwd)

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> > The Archbishop of Canterbury was showing a cathedral to Colon Powell.
The
> > cleric asked him why America seemed to want to take over the world.
> Powell
> > replied that America's by the ten's of thousands had died in foreign
lands
> > to keep them free, yet all the land America had ever asked in return was
> > just enough to bury them in. The Archbishop went silent.
>
> Can you give me full documentary evidence for that please, so that I can
> take it up with my archbishop? I would like date, time, place and who
> reproted it.
>
> thank you
>
> michael

Not exactly how it happened, but the quote is articulate and elegant
nonetheless.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/quotes/powell.asp

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