Obama disrespects dead Navy Seals with auto-signed form letter to next of kin ...

In what I regard as a singular mark of disrespect, Barack Obama has been caught using auto-signed letters to the next of kin …

Obama Honored Fallen SEALs By Sending Their Parents a Form Letter Signed By Electric Pen

On August 6, 2011, 30 US service members were killed when a CH-47 Chinook helicopter they were being transported in crashed in Wardak province, Afghanistan. It was the deadliest single loss for U.S. forces in the decade-long war in Afghanistan. 17 members of the elite Navy SEALs were killed in the crash.

Yesterday, Karen and Billy Vaughn, parents of Aaron Carson Vaughn, spoke at the Defending the Defenders forum sponsored by the Tea Party Patriots outside the RNC Convention in Tampa. Karen brought a copy of the form letter they were sent following their son’s death.

It’s a form letter.

Read more at: Obama Honored Fallen SEALs By Sending Their Parents a Form Letter Signed By Electric Pen | The Gateway Pundit

These are not campaign donors who are sent routine letters thanking them for their donations …

These are the parents and next of kin of men and women who have lost their lives in the service of their country. To believe that any President does not have the time to personally sign condolence letters for fallen soldiers – when he continually shoots hoops, golfs and vacations on the taxpayer’s dime is unbelievable.

Bottom line …

Barack Obama has always been regarded by many, myself included, as a lazy self-indulgent narcissist who appears to have things handed to him by affirmative action or to fulfill the role assigned to him by others. Here is a so-called constitutional scholar and the Editor of the Harvard Law Review with not one published article on constitutional issues or anything else. Here is a man whose early life remains a mystery to the very people who had elected him to the highest office. Here is a man who wrote not one, but two autobiographies while a young man. Of course, written under the suspicion that one or both were probably ghostwritten. Here is a man who received a Nobel Peace Prize for zero accomplishments.

And here is a man who is an empty suit whose pattern of failure and ineptitude is likely to be repeated if re-elected.

But this latest revelation disgusts me most of all. Disrespecting fallen soldiers and their families and treating them if they were $3 campaign donors is not only unacceptable, but WRONG.

-- steve

Comments

[Chester]

Gentlemen, I do hate to tell you this, but any deceased military personnel's family receiving a letter from the president's office has already gotten a serious honor.

Regardless of whether the letter was rubber stamp signed, or autopen signed, it is a message that many a family has never received, even though their relative died under enemy fire, or simply in combat conditions.

Normally that letter is written,and sent, by the soldier's unit commander, NOT the president of the United States. You might want to look that up, then look at a few of the stories told by those unit commanders.

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Chester,

Thanks for your comment. I don't have to look it up. The unit commander's letter is a customary tradition. As are rememberances forwarded to the family by his fellow soldiers.

Acknowledgement by the White House -- while not required -- should be undertaken with respect and solemnity if proffered to families for those who died in high-profile missions of national importance. Not to slight the countless others who have died a relatively anonymous and uncelebrated death in the service of their nation.

My Father helped defend Pearl Harbor during the Japanese attack and served throughout the Pacific with the 63rd Field Artillery Btn.

Upon his death in 1964, we were visited by a full bird Colonel bearing a box of medals that were never delivered during his service in the hell-holes of the Pacific and a letter from the President of the United States. Personally signed by President Lyndon Johnson.

Many years later in 1991, and after my father had passed on, we were contacted by the Army and invited to a honors ceremony held for Pearl Harbor survivors and their families at a base in Los Alamitos, California. We were presented with a congressionally-authorized commemorative medal at that time.

All of my dad's close friends are now gone -- and I was privileged to have spoken with many of them. Especially his then commanding Colonel at Schofield Barracks who later rose to flag rank.

Whether it is 17 soldiers or 1700 soldiers, it is not too much to ask for a real signature on a document that honors the life of any American soldier who perished in combat. If the honor is extended to those who died after their service, I think that is to the honor of the President who chooses to do so. Can we expect no more of a President who personally signs letters to high dollar donors and countless "I'm standing next to him" photographs?

As for receiving a form letter and considering it an honor, I might suggest that it is not an honor at all, just the result of a computerized "feel good" recognition program.

And you may wish to read the blog entry at
http://www.onecitizenspeaking.com/2011/12/remembering-pearl-harbor-december-7-1941-a-cautionary-tale-for-2012.html which contains a picture of my father on Saturday, 6 December 1941.

Here is a story on the 50th Anniversary of Pearl Harbor at Los Alamitos. http://articles.latimes.com/1991-11-11/news/mn-1055_1_pearl-harbor.

I am dialed in -- and still feel a computer-generated letter is less than honorable. -- steve

[Ivan]

If you care to look closely, those aren't autopen signatures. The images have obviously deliberately been made fuzzy so it's a little harder to tell, but pull them up in size and do a comparison and you can see the obvious differences.
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I still don't buy it. Autopens do not produce the same image repeatedly and some have software than introduces a "tremble" into signatures to make them appear more authentic. You would need to compare the originals, not a reproduction at 72-dpi to determine if the signatures were auto-penned or not. But that says nothing about the "form letter" aspect of all of the messages. -- steve