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WW II Battleship sailor
tells Obama to shape up
or ship out !
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.
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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.
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
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...
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. Please pass it on.
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