It was just over a year ago that Don Luce, whom I described in The Man Who Exposed the Truth About the Tiger Cagesas a kindred spirit and one of my heroes, passed away. Closer to home, literally and emotionally, longtime friend George Cooper breathed his last on the morning of November 30^th in familiar surroundings at his home in Phnom Penh.

As is often the case with this wretched disease, the lung cancer for which he was successfully treated several years ago returned with a vengeance, spread beyond his lungs, and metastasized to his brain. His decline was swift and merciless. George would have turned 76 next month.

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Shalom (שלום), MAA