Dee Perez-Scott: The Greatest Generation Speaks

This venerable and  much honored WW II vet is well known in Hawaii or 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 , llowing 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 deterrmined 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 meanspirited. " Please tell her to try rhar  preaching that nonsense on 23 generations of our war dead buried all over the globe who died for no other  ason 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 the    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..
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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.