Letter To Obama at White house Sent from 95 year Old Pearl
Harbor Survivor !!
Fantastic!!
This venerable and much honored WW II vet is well known in
Hawaii
for his seventy-plus years of service to patriotic
organizations and causes all over the country.
A humble man without a political bone in his body, he has
never spoken out before about a government official, until now. He dictated
this letter to a friend, signed it and mailed it to the
president.
Dear President Obama,
My name is Harold Estes, approaching 95 on December 13 of
this year. People meeting me for the first time don't believe my age because I
remain wrinkle free and pretty much mentally alert.
I enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1934 and served proudly
before, during and after WW II retiring as a Master Chief Bos'n Mate. Now I
live in a "rest home" located on the western end of Pearl Harbor ,
allowing me to keep alive the memories of 23 years of serviceto my country.
One of the benefits of my age, perhaps the only one, is to
speak my mind, blunt and direct even to the head man.
So here goes.
I am amazed, angry and determined not to see my country die
before I do, but you seem hell bent not to grant me that wish.
I can't figure out what country you are the president of.
You fly around the world telling our friends and enemies
despicable lies like:
" We're no longer a Christian nation"
" America is arrogant" - (Your wife even
announced to the world," America is mean- spirited.
" Please tell her to try preaching
that nonsense to 23 generations of our
war dead buried all over the globe who
died for no other reason than to free a
whole lot of strangers from tyranny and
hopelessness.)
I'd say shame on the both of you, but I don't think you like
America, nor do I see an ounce of gratefulness in anything you do, for the
obvious gifts this country has given you. To be without shame or gratefulness
is a dangerous thing for a man sitting in the
White House.
After 9/11 you said," America hasn't lived up to her
ideals."
Which ones did you mean? Was it the notion of personal
liberty that 11,000 farmers and shopkeepers died for to win independence from
the British? Or maybe the ideal that no man should be a slave to another man,
that 500,000 men died for in the Civil War? I
hope you didn't mean the ideal 470,000 fathers, brothers,
husbands, and a lot of fellas I knew personally died for in WWII, because we
felt real strongly about not letting any nation push us around, because we
stand for freedom.
I don't think you mean the ideal that says equality is
better than discrimination. You know the one that a whole lot of white people
understood when they helped to get you elected.
Take a little advice from a very old geezer, young man.
Shape up and start acting like an American. If you don't,
I'll do what I can to see you get shipped out of that fancy rental on Pennsylvania
Avenue . You were elected to lead not to bow, apologize and kiss the hands of
murderers and corrupt leaders who still
treat their people like slaves.
And just who do you think you are telling the American
people not to jump to conclusions and condemn that Muslim major who killed 13
of his fellow soldiers and wounded dozens more. You mean you don't want us to
do what you did when that white cop used force
to subdue that black college professor in Massachusetts ,
who was putting up a fight? You don't mind offending the police calling them
stupid but you don't want us to offend Muslim fanatics by calling them what
they are, terrorists.
One more thing. I realize you never served in the military
and never had to defend your country with your life, but you're the
Commander-in-Chief now, son. Do your job. When your battle-hardened field
General asks you for 40,000 more troops to complete the
mission, give them to him. But if you're not in this fight
to win, then get out. The life of one American soldier is not worth the best
political strategy you're thinking of.
You could be our greatest president because you face the
greatest challenge ever presented to any president.
You're not going to restore American greatness by bringing
back our bloated economy. That's not our greatest threat. Losing the heart and
soul of who we are as Americans is our big fight now.
And I sure as hell don't want to think my president is the
enemy in this final battle...
Sincerely,
Harold B. Estes
Snopes confirms as true:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/haroldestes.asp
When a 95 year old hero of the "the Greatest
Generation" stands up and speaks out like this, I think we owe it to him
to send his words to as many Americans as we can.
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