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95 year old hero!





Letter To Obama at Whitehouse Sent from 95 year Old Pearl Harbor Survivor! Fantastic!!















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

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.





John & Yvette Massey

WCN- Will we hate Coach Cal if he ever leaves UK?

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SamKat

Junior Join Date: Jan 2006

Location: Westerville, Ohio, USA

Posts: 2,312



Good questions to ask ourselves as UK basketball fans, RockyBlue. I am very much addicted to shadenfreude as a UK basketball fan. I believe sincere fans are just that way.



I do not hate any of our departed coaches. RP did the most dispicable act in going to a rival program even though he wanted back in Kentucky where fans truly love college basketball. He added to our disrespect by making many inflammatory statements againt UK after that, but I can still forgive him as a Christian even with all my hypocrisy.



I have always respected Coach Hall, during and after his very successful career at UK, and I am proud that I can call him a good friend- lucky me. Eddie relished the UK job. Another good friend, Gene DeFilipo, told me that Eddie Sutton would never let his team think they would not win a game even to the last millisecond. I loved that. Tubby is such a good man, but he let us down time and time again even though he always promised to play faster. Gillispie was too much into his single life and the money, and languishing by us fans. Billy quit on the sidelines especially in trying to hold down Jodie Meeks. I still respect Billy and pray often for him.



I don't see why Memphis or UK fans should ever hate Coach Cal. He has been honest with us up to the point when he may leave. But we must admit we have the greatest college coach in the land and he has brought more respect for our basketball program. Knowledgable Basketball adminstrators will naturally covet our coach.



In my haste into a busy day ahead, I have not read all of the posts on this thread, but I certainly intend to.



Thanks again, RockyBlue!





SamKat

FW- The Sneeze Thanks Sarah Taylor, wife of the great Christian preacher, Myron Taylor

Sarah,




I expected something good from you as always. This is the best I have read, good friend! Thank you, thank you, thank you! And thank our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ! He is risen and He will rise far above all of the secular bigotry of this current USA. We want our country back!



Sam

----- Original Message -----

From: Sarah Taylor

To: skegley@columbus.rr.com

Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2010 18:51

Subject: Fw: Fwd: The Sneeze please read



















THE SNEEZE

They walked in tandem, each of the ninety-two students filing into the already crowded auditorium. With their rich maroon gowns flowing and the traditional caps, they looked almost as grown up as they felt.



Dads swallowed hard behind broad smiles, and Moms freely brushed away tears.



This class would NOT pray during the commencements, not by choice, but because of a recent court ruling prohibiting it.



The principal and several students were careful to stay within the guidelines allowed by the ruling. They gave inspirational and challenging speeches, but no one mentioned divine guidance and no one asked for blessings on the graduates or their families.



The speeches were nice, but they were routine until the final speech received a standing ovation.



A solitary student walked proudly to the microphone. He stood still and silent for just a moment, and then, it happened.



All 92 students, every single one of them, suddenly SNEEZED !!!!





The student on stage simply looked at the audience and said,



'GOD BLESS YOU'



And he walked off the stage...



The audience exploded into applause. This graduating class had found a unique way to invoke God's blessing on their future with or without the court's approval.



Isn't this a wonderful story? Pass it on to all your friends.........and



GOD BLESS YOU!!!!



This is a true story; it happened at the University of Maryland .





Oh, how I wish THIS one would take off and FILL the whole Country!