For my friend and colleague Gary DeLeon I offer the prayer of peace for his spirit. My remembrances for Gary will always be that he was a man of great character and integrity with an easy personality that made it difficult not to like him. I worked with Gary the last several years and because we were the same age, and had similar interests, we developed a close working relationship. It’s not often in this life that you have a friendship that leaves you as a better person for it. This is the case for Gary DeLeon. He left others as better persons for having known him. For Gary’s family I can only offer my sorrow for your loss and pray that the celebration of Gary’s life, and the remembrances that you share as a family, will somehow help to ease your the pain in this time of grievance. My thoughts go out to you.