Who is harold b estes

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. One more thing. Do your job.

When your battle-hardened field General asks you for 40, more troops to complete the mission, give them to him. You could be our greatest president because you face the greatest challenge ever presented to any president.

Losing the heart and soul of who we are as Americans is our big fight now. Origins: Many readers originally encountered the above-reproduced letter to President Obama on the web site Congress. The actual author of the letter was Hawaii resident Harold B. Estes, a long-serving veteran of the U. Thank you for your note and this opportunity to personally vouch for that to which you refer. A retired Master Chief Boatswains Mate, he dictated the letter to a secretary who printed it and Harold has signed it personally.

I believe that in addition to the president, over 50 hard copies were mailed to various VIPs bearing his signature. Another personal and mutual friend showed me his copy! Honolulu television station KITV also interviewed Harold Estes at his Hawaii home and verified that he wrote the letter attributed to him:. More than guests paid tribute to Estes, who retired from the Navy in , and has received numerous awards from the Secretary of the Navy for public service and involvement in the Sea Services.

Estes on the pier next to the decommissioned battleship USS Missouri. Navy photo by Journalist Seaman Ryan C. The event is a continuous effort between local law enforcement agents and military commands in Hawaii to build relations between service members and the community. Estes died May 17, Estes, smiles for a photo in front of the Chief Harold B.

He took to the Navy like the proverbial duck takes to the water. Estes loved the Navy and the Navy returned that love. His first ship was the battleship California, later sunk at Pearl Harbor. Hays, who was going back east on a business trip, said he would talk to our congressional delegation all approved and to the vice chief of naval operations, Stanley Arthur, who had been a fighter pilot over Vietnam with Hays.

Arthur approved, too. Interestingly, he shared a story about a Japanese delegation that had startled him by asking to have the Missouri towed to Tokyo Bay in for the 50th anniversary of the surrender ceremonies on the battleship. The Japanese delegation told him that the Missouri represented a new beginning. It turned the rhetoric of democracy, freedom and prosperity into reality for Japan. This idea was welcomed by the three.

As it has turned out, the Japanese have become major visitors to the Missouri. The beginning and end of the Pacific war is dramatically portrayed by these two ships. This Author of this article had the pleasure of meeting Estes.

I can attest that he was a true gentleman. A letter critical of Obama penned by Estes several years ago went viral on the Internet and references to it are still numerous. The Japanese thinking of the Missouri as a symbol of a new beginning. That is most excellent, and explains some of the reaction of some Japanese tourists at the National Atomic Museum towards the models of Fat Man and Little Boy.

Paul Tibbetts was there autographing his book, and the Japanese tourists seemed happy to meet him. His actions led to a fork in the road, one way leading to increasing nationalism and a certain repeat the road Germany took at the end of WW1, pushed there by the "victors" , the other to a fresh start.

MacArthur strongly shoved Japan towards the fork Germany didn't take the first time. Part of what allowed Japan to become such an economic powerhouse is that, with so much of their infrastructure destroyed, they rebuilt with newer designs and technology. Here in the US, more and more old big cities like Boston and Philadelphia are having issues with sewers more than years old, sometimes almost years old.

This new start left Japan open to new ideas, like the industrial management and quality control pushed by Edward Deming which were essentially ignored here until Japan validated them. Maybe this country needs to have its collective asses kicked like Japan in order to wake up. Uhmm…Everybody who's not a white man ….. And I mean white-white ….