I wish I'd known Brian, he sounded like a great guy.
I know I have one WOAM left, so I'm sending that smoke skyward in honor of him. RIP.
On a related note, my uncle passed away on Thanksgiving as well at age 68 after a 4 year battle with prostate cancer. They gave him 6 months and he lasted the extra 3.5 years, and saw another grandchild and great-grandchild born. He had 5 children, 18 grandchildren and 3 great-grandchildren. He was a lifelong cigar smoker until he quit about 10 years ago. He still bought the cigars and chewed on them out of habit, but didn't smoke them. His cigar of choice was Roi-Tan. So I'll be lighting up one of those as well in his memory. I think I'll need the WOAM after that.