This is a copy of the letter I sent to Hilton Corp; address and instructions appended:





Fran O'Brien's Restaurant in the Washington, DC Hilton location should be given a special award for true American Patriotism. Instead the Hilton Hotels Corp is refusing to renew their lease.





This restaurant regularly hosts amputees from Iraq and Afghanistan and there are many veterans and veteran families and supporters throughout the greater Capital area, as well as in Congress.


Many major defense related corporations are also following this disturbing development - or soon will be.





You can turn this into a corporate 'plus' by renewing the lease immediately on favorable terms and rewarding the vets community and operators of this restaurant, - or you can make a major PR error with expanded consequences for shareholders and guests alike.





Your call.


Do the RIGHT thing.


Be sure we will.





LtCol Frederick Peterson, USMC (Ret);





Frederick A. Peterson III, J.D.





John "Jack" Cunningham


Sussex, NJ