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1、-范文最新推荐- an English speech:peace since two-hijacked passenger planes crashed the world trade center to bits, the world has been bathed in tears. shocked at this terrorist attack, we cant help asking what peace is and how we can set ensured of peace. peace, in any language, is an easy term to pronoun
2、ce. peace evokes the simplest yet most cherished sentiment of human. peace has always been mankinds key driving force. peace stands as the ultimate aim after which man aspires. yet, the history of civilization has it black and white that while we speak incessantly of peace, man at times simply do th
3、ings that eclipse or even lose its face.human nature being what it is, peace is never something to be attained at ease. and with competition supplying the major content of existence for us homosapiens, perfect peace, to many is but a word and a pursuit meaningless. but we just could not stand motion
4、less against competition generating into clashes and conflicts, however strong mans acquisitiveness is.i find my heart bleeding while turning historys pages, from the greco-persian war to the crusaders, from hitlers concentration camps to japanese second world war bacteria experiments, the history o
5、f mankind had bloody killings for a better part of its unmistakable markings. and recent history, as revealed by the terrorist attack on the wtc twin-tower building, is not in the least nice. rather, it sends the opposite truth: peace is missing amidst the many proud strides humanity has achieved on
6、 planet earth.close our eyes not, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, in a time when humiliation, aggregation, slaughter and torture are being inflicted upon millions. lets stand firm on this faith: peace will prevail as long as we prevent the longings for peace being shaken to pieces. for our par
7、ents, grandparents and forefathers, their sufferings and having suffered from a lack of peace just didnt undermine their belief in peaces landing at their footsteps. nor did all this stop them paying heavy prices to usher in peace for posteritys goodness. since they did not lose their hope for a soc
8、iety of peace and a world of peace, what ground can we hold other than this- look forward and join our hands to reach out to peace.with the wtc tragedy still there in the eyes, drawing nearer to the heart of many must inevitably be a sense of hopelessness. lost no heart, ill tell them, for hopelessn
9、ess can be easily be translated into dream, and dream to deeds. once deeds are there, the light of peace will be shining our path of progress. they must see americans as strange liberators. the vietnamese people proclaimed their own independence *in 1954* - in 1945 *rather* - after a combined french
10、 and japanese occupation and before the communist revolution in china. they were led by ho chi minh. even though they quoted the american declaration of independence in their own document of freedom, we refused to recognize them. instead, we decided to support france in its reconquest of her former
11、colony. our government felt then that the vietnamese people were not ready for independence, and we again fell victim to the deadly western arrogance that has poisoned the international atmosphere for so long. with that tragic decision we rejected a revolutionary government seeking self-determinatio
12、n and a government that had been established not by china - for whom the vietnamese have no great love - but by clearly indigenous forces that included some communists. for the peasants this new government meant real land reform, one of the most important needs in their lives.for nine years followin
13、g 1945 we denied the people of vietnam the right of independence. for nine years we vigorously supported the french in their abortive effort to recolonize vietnam. before the end of the war we were meeting eighty percent of the french war costs. even before the french were defeated at dien bien phu,
14、 they began to despair of their reckless action, but we did not. we encouraged them with our huge financial and military supplies to continue the war even after they had lost the will. soon we would be paying almost the full costs of this tragic attempt at recolonization.after the french were defeat
15、ed, it looked as if independence and land reform would come again through the geneva agreement. but instead there came the united states, determined that ho should not unify the temporarily divided nation, and the peasants watched again as we supported one of the most vicious modern dictators, our c
16、hosen man, premier diem. the peasants watched and cringed as diem ruthlessly rooted out all opposition, supported their extortionist landlords, and refused even to discuss reunification with the north. the peasants watched as all this was presided over by united states' influence and then by inc
17、reasing numbers of united states troops who came to help quell the insurgency that diem's methods had aroused. when diem was overthrown they may have been happy, but the long line of military dictators seemed to offer no real change, especially in terms of their need for land and peace.the only
18、change came from america, as we increased our troop commitments in support of governments which were singularly corrupt, inept, and without popular support. all the while the people read our leaflets and received the regular promises of peace and democracy and land reform. now they languish under ou
19、r bombs and consider us, not their fellow vietnamese, the real enemy. they move sadly and apathetically as we herd them off the land of their fathers into concentration camps where minimal social needs are rarely met. they know they must move on or be destroyed by our bombs.so they go, primarily wom
20、en and children and the aged. they watch as we poison their water, as we kill a million acres of their crops. they must weep as the bulldozers roar through their areas preparing to destroy the precious trees. they wander into the hospitals with at least twenty casualties from american firepower for
21、one vietcong-inflicted injury. so far we may have killed a million of them, mostly children. they wander into the towns and see thousands of the children, homeless, without clothes, running in packs on the streets like animals. they see the children degraded by our soldiers as they beg for food. the
22、y see the children selling their sisters to our soldiers, soliciting for their mothers.what do the peasants think as we ally ourselves with the landlords and as we refuse to put any action into our many words concerning land reform? what do they think as we test out our latest weapons on them, just
23、as the germans tested out new medicine and new tortures in the concentration camps of europe? where are the roots of the independent vietnam we claim to be building? is it among these voiceless ones?we have destroyed their two most cherished institutions: the family and the village. we have destroye
24、d their land and their crops. we have cooperated in the crushing of the nation's only noncommunist revolutionary political force, the unified buddhist church. we have supported the enemies of the peasants of saigon. we have corrupted their women and children and killed their men.now there is lit
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