To:
President Barack Obama
Rep. F. Allen Boyd
Sen. Bill Nelson
Sen. George LeMieux
November
20, 2009
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
McAlpin , FL
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