What you are about to read is the raw story of a death as it unfolded in real time, and how it impacted multiple lives. It is just one more battle story in the ongoing war against cancer - a diary of a thousand small defeats and even more victories - some past, and some that will hopefully come in the future.

This is also a very, very human story told in a very, very, human way by a woman who found strength she never thought she had, and learned that sometimes, in the end, strength alone is not enough. It is Tony Leonard's story, a story of the Iraq war contractor, father, husband, brother, son, and friend's fight against the odds, time, and his own body.

Through these pages you will meet Tony, a man who, after fighting nearly the better part of a decade, lost his battle with cancer on January 22, 2019. Tony's life became a continuous, ferocious, battle against an intractable and cunning enemy, but he never let that enemy define who or what he was or how he chose to live whatever time was allotted to him.