21.   Former Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda admitted that he lost a son to the disease, and the preeminent South African judge Edwin Cameron has disclosed his positive HIV status.

22.   Four years later, the Bias family lost another son, Jay, in a drive-by shooting.

23.   Friends lost their son, a shooting victim.

24.   He embraced Kyle Petty, who had lost a son in a racing accident the previous season and who was driving the car Adam would have driven at Daytona.

25.   He believed, it seems, that he was also losing his son.

26.   He has even supplied a cupful to a woman who lost a son in the World Trade Center.

27.   He married Cecilia Taylor, daughter of frontiersman Anson Taylor, who lost three sons at the Alamo.

28.   He said he was still numb from the pain of losing his son, Franck, who was killed last December, reportedly by rival nationalists.

29.   He lost seven sons, three daughters.

30.   Heeran never thought he would lose a son this way.