WW II Battleship sailor tells Obama to shape up or ship out ! - Patriotic Resistance

WW II Battleship sailor tells Obama to shape up or ship out ! - Patriotic Resistance

> 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
>
> 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.