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Hong Xie
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A Product of China’s Silicon Valley ⌗ Director of Global Development, One World ⇢ Managing Partner, AtNight Group ⌇via OWSC
United States Bergabung Mayıs 2016
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CELEBRATING THE LIFE OF TONY L. MATHIS •• REST IN PEACE, BROTHER.
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It is hard for me to believe that this is how it ends. I always knew that one day our effort would near its end, that the daily calls would slow down, that life would eventually pull us in different directions. I knew the rhythm we had would not last forever. But I never thought it would end like this.
Before I say anything else, I want to ask people to give Tony’s family privacy. Please let them grieve in peace. Let them have quiet. Let them have dignity. Let them cry, pray, remember, and hold each other without the noise of speculation or intrusion. Some losses are too personal for the public to crowd. This is one of them.
There were days on this search where I felt so alone that I was not sure how much more I had left in me. Days when the pressure, the hatred, the division, and everything going through my mind made the world feel smaller and darker than it had any right to be. And in those moments, I thought about Tony.
More than anyone I have ever known, Tony had made peace with the fact that death comes for us all. He taught me that death is inevitable. And because it is inevitable, it loses the power to define what matters. What matters are the things that are not inevitable. The things we choose. The things we create. The people we love. The roads we take when everything in life seems to be pushing us the other way.
That is what Tony taught me.
Above all else, I loved him for his remarkable refusal to go quietly into that good night. I once shared with him the line, “Rage, rage against the dying of the light.” It reminded me of him then. It reminds me of him now more than ever.
Because if you really think about a man like Tony, what stands out most is this: in a world where he had every reason to give up, he chose not to. A dozen times over, he could have walked away. He could have closed the door, protected his peace, and left the burden to someone else. But he did not. For reasons only a man like Tony can fully explain, he chose to rage.
Not rage for the sake of anger.
Rage against darkness.
Rage against apathy.
Rage against cruelty.
Rage against the forces that wear good people down and try to make them quiet.
Rage to protect the people he loved.
Rage to defend a missing child from being forgotten.
And somehow, even knowing how much darkness there was, he still found room for life. For humor. For joy. For peace. For family. For love.
That may be the most deeply moving mark a man can leave behind. To know how this story ends for all of us, and still choose to live passionately anyway. To know the light is fading, and still spend your life protecting it. That is who Tony was. That is the lesson at the center of my time with him.
I had the honor of meeting Tony first virtually, and then in person. It started back in September 2024 when my team brought a missing child’s poster to my desk again and again. I kept saying no. Not because I did not care, but because in our work, when we step into something, we do not leave until the mission is complete. We do not accept obstacles. We go through them, around them, over them, or under them. Success is the only acceptable outcome. I told the team that if we went through with this, it could change our lives.
Looking back, Tony gave us better warnings than anyone could have.
He understood the terrain before we ever stepped onto it.
Hatred. Division. Smear campaigns. Lies. Evil. Love nowhere to be found. Unity evaporating. Common sense becoming uncommon. Civility becoming uncivilized. Humanity becoming inhumane.
Tony told us it was a dangerous search. We laughed it off. Dog and I had already been through hell and back chasing fugitives and dealing with violent people and their extended crime families, so nothing seemed too hard for us. We thought we knew what hard looked like. Tony knew this was different.
And he was right.
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It is with deep sorrow that we announce the passing of Tony L. Mathis, publicly identified in connection with this case as Seth R. Rogers’s spokesman, a steadfast advocate in the search for Sebastian Wayne Drake Rogers, and a man we came to regard as a brother. Before anything else, we ask plainly, respectfully, and without exception that Tony’s family, friends, and loved ones be given privacy. Give them room to grieve. Give them room to breathe. Give them room to bury, remember, cry, pray, and hold one another without the noise of speculation, intrusion, or performance. Some moments do not belong to the crowd. This is one of them. There are some losses measured in headlines, and there are others measured in an empty chair at the table, a phone that will never light up again, a voice you still expect to hear, and a house that suddenly feels different. This is that kind of loss. If you have ever loved a child, stood beside a friend when the world turned cruel, defended your family, or stayed awake at night hoping for news that never came, then you understand something about Tony. He was not made of distance. He was made of loyalty. He carried himself with the heart of a protector. He cared deeply, spoke plainly, stood his ground, and refused to leave people alone in their darkest hour. When Sebastian’s name risked being swallowed by silence, Tony helped keep it in the light. He understood what too many people forget: when a child goes missing, the pain does not stop with that child. It reaches parents, families, friends, volunteers, and complete strangers whose conscience will not allow them to look away. Tony did not look away. He embodied the kind of decency people of every age and every walk of life still recognize when they see it: grit, faithfulness, patriotism, protectiveness, humor, and a fierce love for children and family. He did not step into this fight because it was easy. He stepped into it because he believed a missing child should never become background noise. He endured criticism, harassment, and pressure that would have driven many others from the field. But Tony stayed. When people came for him, he bore it. When they came for those he loved, he stood taller. When Seth Rogers and Sebastian needed a voice, he gave them one. Not because it was profitable. Not because it was convenient. But because he believed it was right. This was never simply a role to him. It was never simply media. It was never simply public attention. It was a human obligation as he saw it. He picked up weight other people dropped. He carried pain that was not originally his, and he carried it anyway. That is rare. That is honorable. That is the measure of the man. And because Sebastian remains publicly listed as a missing child, because the FBI continues to offer a reward for information, and because law enforcement has said the case remains active and ongoing, Tony’s voice may be gone, but the duty he embraced is not. To Tony’s family, to Seth R. Rogers, and to all who loved him, we extend our deepest condolences. We ask the public once more: respect their privacy. Leave room for grief. Remember that behind every public fight are private tears no camera will ever capture. Tony L. Mathis will be remembered not only for what he said, but for the fact that he stayed. He showed up. He kept faith. He refused to let a child be forgotten. And for that, he will be mourned, honored, and remembered.
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