From Facebook
(Thanks Bruce)
"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
