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CHICAGO -- Juan Torres didn't believe that his son, Army Reservist Juan "John" M. Torres, had killed himself in Afghanistan just weeks before he was to return home in July 2004.

He figured that John, 25, was murdered because of his opposition to the reportedly rampant heroin trade around the base.

NEW YORK -- When he was diagnosed with kidney cancer last year, Dave deBronkart needed an easy way to keep his far-flung friends and family updated.

So did the president of the American Medical Association when he fell ill months ago. And so did the mother of a soldier wounded in Iraq who later...

NEW YORK (AP) -- When he was diagnosed with kidney cancer last year, Dave deBronkart needed an easy way to keep his far-flung friends and family updated.

So did the president of the American Medical Association when he fell ill months ago. And so did the mother of a soldier wounded in Iraq who later suffered brain damage....