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.
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 hell
don't want to think my president is the
enemy in this final battle...
Sincerely,
Harold B. Estes
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