A REALLY GOOD READ ! ! !
95 year old hero!
Letter To Obama at Whitehouse 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 service to 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 (heck) 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 as we can.
Please pass it on.
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