Editor,

After exhaustive research of my own, I have found the true meaning of COER, and that is “Crazy Old Elite Rich.”

This appears to be a group of mostly wealthy people who left the East Coast because they couldn’t tolerate the weather and couldn’t bully anyone into changing it.

In their quest for the promised land, they settled on our little slice of heaven here on Whidbey and decided that their goal in life is to band together and drive out the Navy so they can have their very own Martha’s Vineyard in the Pacific Northwest after the economy collapses and everyone else is forced to look for another place to live where they can still make a living for their families.

The problem, as I see it, is they don’t provide any proof to go with all of their claims about health issues, etc., related to the Growlers, but they are reaching out to other areas for support of their cause.

As with anything else, they will acquire that certain percentage of people that just need a cause to survive their daily existence. But, if you questioned them about their feelings, the response would most likely be, “well COER said so, so it must be right.”

In defense of the Navy, they have been here for a long time, and I personally hope they are here for a lot longer because COER, like our current government, doesn’t seem to think we need any military at all.

If the Navy ever does fold up its tent and leave, COER’s members better enjoy what’s left of their free and fancy lifestyle before the next landlord comes across the water and moves into what used to be the home of our proud Navy.

Go Navy, we love you and your jets. I live right under Outlying Field Coupeville and love every minute of it.

Dick Johnson

Coupeville