jesse james oliva was a great kid sure he made trouble just like any other kid .
when he was 15 he got involved with the wrong couple boys and ended up in the detention home for boys for 4 years.
when he was released he decided to dedicate his life to making himself a better person and he did a shitty job in the beginning.
he experimented with drugs and alcohol,just like most of the rest of the population.
however he took it serious and realized he could not handle it.he quit doing drugs and met a girl and they dated for a few months....
he came to me and told me that he was in love with a girl and he was afraid that if he told her the truth about his past he would lose her.
i told him that the truth was the best way ,if he lied to her and she was to find out ....it would end.
he told her the truth....he was with 2 other boys and a man was beaten to death and he was there.... he was the watch dog for the boys doing the robbery.
age 15 and accessory to murder.....
he spent 4 years deained and obtained his high school diploma and was released on his 19 th birthday.
she knew the truth and loved him for it...they had their first son 2 years later. kainalu
he was a good daddy and i was there for my grandsons birth as well...
jesse never left that babys side till he went home with them..he loved his son ...
then a year and a half later she was born....hokulani makamae...
she was tiny and she had trouble from the start of her life ....2 holes in her heart. she had to be fed thru a tube for the first 6 months of her life jackie his wife and jesse took such care of her that she made it to be old enough to have open heart surgery.
at this time he had become selfemployed and was running his own business (a branch off the father company)on maui...
hoku went into surgery with her daddy there at her side every min every day they had to force him to eat and bathe let alone holding the need to use the toilet till he could no longer do so.
she recovered quickly and was thriving without the tube within a week.
then came anuhea.....the business booming and he just finished building his own 5 bed room home, he was so proud and told me" mom the french doors ...i hung them and they came out perfect...."
and was not one, not a flaw in his work.... he loved being a daddy and father and husband... jesse and jackie had celebrated 6 years together and the children kainalu 4, hoku 2 1/2 and anuhea only 1 month old....then one day he went in to his bedroom and hung himself.....
no note..... no answers.....no sense in it he was gone.....why no one can answer that but him.....and God. so my dear friends ther is no gurantee that you have any days and that life is fair...it isn't at times...
i find no comfort and i do not smile very often. so when you see me somber he is in my thoughts and mind and he will be my small man forever..
this is the tale of a young life gone without a reason.........................
