12-07-2011, 18:59
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President Obama Gets Owned by a 95 Year Old Pearl Harbor Survivor
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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.
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the restof the letter: http://ireporters.wordpress.com/2011...rbor-survivor/
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12-07-2011, 19:30
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12-07-2011, 19:45
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Thanks Richard, but it's news for me today...Never saw the story before.I apologize for reporting "old" news... 
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12-07-2011, 19:56
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Things like that die a s...l...o..w death on the WWW - we're in an election cycle and I wish one of those guys at Pearl Harbor had spoken up today in a similar manner. 
Richard 
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“Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.” - Robert Heinlein
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12-07-2011, 20:04
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Things like that die a s...l...o..w death on the WWW - we're in an election cycle and I wish one of those guys at Pearl Harbor had spoken up today in a similar manner.
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I agree...at least the story re-surfaced...to get passed around again
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12-07-2011, 20:04
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Thanks for sharing this!
I am 15 miles FROM Pearl Harbor!
PS - Did you know Obama thinks Hawaii is in ASIA?! See http://www.theblaze.com/stories/obam...being-in-asia/
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12-07-2011, 20:05
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I'd never heard of this before either. Thanks for sharing. Just as true today as the day he wrote it.
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12-07-2011, 22:06
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QP Snaquebite,
Thanks for posting, first time I have seen this, that was 2 minutes well spent. 
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