"The Cost Of Freedom Is Buried In The Ground."

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. It reads:



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 it 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 evenannounced 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




Thoughts: 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 listen and send his words to as many Americans as we can.