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drtom wrote: I am repeating myself here with a post on another thread but FWIW: After 9/11 Canadians donated 37,000 pints of blood. That's 1.2 pints per 1000 people. Even in the US we only managed to hit 1.6/1000. I don't think this could be called "mocking" and "reviling". How many pints did we receive from our oh-so-loyal ally Great Britain? There probably are more America-hating Brits than Canadians. I would surely hit a Canadian sports bar anytime over a British pub.

After 9/11 Americans started donating blood but it was soon evident that it wasn't needed and what had been already donated was going to go to waste.

Evidently Canada's media didn't get that message out.

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That doesn't in any way negate the effort by the Canadian people. Each individual donated in an unselfish attempt to help any which way they could think of.