Tony - The strength you've shown this past year, the projects you've taken on (and completed), the hunting excursions with your lovely wife, your son, your daughter, all the smiles and uplifting moments you've shared with us in the photos, your firm embrace on LIFE, disease be damned.........the word "courageous" does not even begin to scratch the surface of your mettle.

You've deeply impacted every conscious member of this site; all the prayers and thoughts of love shot into the air in hopes of making a difference is sheer testimony of this.

We're blind to the fight you wage every second of every day, every second of every long night, still we tell you to keep fighting. Aw shit, Tony, it's 3 in the morning and I don't know what to say except to inanely beg you to stick around.

I'm going outside now to stare into the cold night air and try to catapult my heart over the sea to you.