BANGOR, Maine -- 06/08/2019 -- Pham Do and his wife, Mui Tang, (center) talk with Judy Bielicki (left) and Leonard Minsky in 2019 at an event at Frank’s Bakery in Bangor to mark the 40th anniversary of the Do family arrival in Bangor after fleeing Vietnam. Credit: Judy Harrison / BDN

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I have been a member of our miserable species for over 80 years, but Leonard Minsky stands out, unchallenged, as the finest man I have ever known.

May his memory live forever.

Jim Fortini

Roque Bluffs