I miss you every day. Your wife Eileen, daughter Brittany, and sons MJ and Tyler miss you so deeply. I pray for the day when the pain of losing you is just a little bearable. Last week I hung your Christmas lights. I cried the whole time. I should not be hanging your lights. You should be here putting them up with your family. We will never forget you. For now I am trying to live with only your memory.

Michael was a man of character, strength and inexhaustible energy. While his physical presence may be gone, his spirit lives on with everyone he touched. I miss you, Michael, but I know we'll meet again.