pass it on if you can:claps::claps::claps:


95 year old hero!
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 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
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.
Please pass it on.

X 100

I re-read this 3 times, and it gets better every time... Well said and good for him!

Thank you for your service sir.
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I can't believe guys like him who served & sacrificed so much for this country aren't taking the law into their own hands !
What they got to loose, going to jail at 95 years old :devil2:

A lot of people are wondering who's side Obama is on. People argue if Obama or Carter is the worst of our modern day Presidents. I say Obama and Carter were equally zero effective but at least Carter was a truly moral man and no doubt about his love of America. Obama.....I have my doubts on both accounts.

A lot of people are wondering who's side Obama is on. People argue if Obama or Carter is the worst of our modern day Presidents. I say Obama and Carter were equally zero effective but at least Carter was a truly moral man and no doubt about his love of America. Obama.....I have my doubts on both accounts.

That is good for a laugh.

That is good for a laugh.

Hmmm I think history will prove it to be quite accurate . We know recent history proves him to be the most Incompetent leader and prolific liar in recent history. Open your eyes Paul, the guys a daily contradiction of what you think he is.
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Hmmm I think history will prove it to be quite accurate . We know recent history proves him to be the most Incompetent leader and prolific liar in recent history. Open your eyes Paul, the guys a daily contradiction of what you think he is.
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So he hates his country?

Right out of McCarthy (or Alan West).

He hates his country. He is not American. He is not Christian.

Sad

So he hates his country?

Right out of McCarthy (or Alan West).

He hates his country. He is not American. He is not Christian.

Sad

He wants to fundamentally change America into what he wants . So yes
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So he hates his country?

Right out of McCarthy (or Alan West).

He hates his country. He is not American. He is not Christian.

Sad

Paul, at least you didn't accuse him of racism. On the other hand, you're using another scare tactic--the McCarthy card.

The 95 year old did not accuse Obama of being a communist. He did not say that Obama is not a Christian. He said that he doubts that Obama loves his country. He didn't say that he hated it. There are, as Spence attests, more centrist opinions. To not love is not to hate. There is, in between, indifference or detachment or lack of passion either way.

But to throw in the McCarthy card . . . sad.

Paul, at least you didn't accuse him of racismWhere have I accused anyone of racism?. On the other hand, you're using another scare tactic--the McCarthy card.

The 95 year old did not accuse Obama of being a communist. He did not say that Obama is not a Christian. He said that he doubts that Obama loves his country. He didn't say that he hated it. There are, as Spence attests, more centrist opinions. To not love is not to hate. There is, in between, indifference or detachment or lack of passion either way.

But to throw in the McCarthy card . . . sad.

I wasn't refering to the 95 year, I was refering to Saltheart stating he thought Obama doesn't love his country and that is why I quoted yhat post. In a broader sense I was refering to the tactics of what use to be the fringe right (not much different from the tactics of the fringe left) but is now so common amongst a great % of right (such as how A. West stated a lot of Dems where communists). Obama has been called all those things I said.

I don't think that the claims of the birthers where really any different than what McCarthy did.

I wasn't refering to the 95 year, I was refering to Saltheart stating he thought Obama doesn't love his country and that is why I quoted yhat post. In a broader sense I was refering to the tactics of what use to be the fringe right (not much different from the tactics of the fringe left) but is now so common amongst a great % of right (such as how A. West stated a lot of Dems where communists). Obama has been called all those things I said.

I don't think that the claims of the birthers where really any different than what McCarthy did.

Sorry for my mistake of who you were referring to. But to accuse Saltheart or anybody else of McCarthyism is not so different from accusing the "great % of right" of "tactics." "McCarthyism" and "racism" are labels used to discredit opposing views and to dismiss discussion on those views. If someone says Obama is a communist, that is different than calling up for interrogation before the House Unamerican committee, or whatever it was called. It is an opinion which can be rationally discussed. And if there is some peripheral similarity between McCarthyism and saying someone is a communist, then there is a similarity between Obama's political views and communism. It may be extreme to say that he is totally and absolutely a communist, so it is also extreme to say that saying so is McCarthyism.

He wants to fundamentally change America into what he wants . So yes
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Good point.

I didn't say he hates his country. I said I have doubts he loves his country. I think he views himself as a citizen of the world with the USA not as his primary love or concern.