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Cancer Leaves A Broken Heart

The Broken Hearts Club. Membership is booming. I was reading stories about Veterans Day families suffering from a loss and trying to cope.

On the Today Show yesterday, there was a heartfelt story about a group of moms who meet at Arlington National Cemetery. They sit among the headstones of their children. With broken hearts, they try to support each other and heal.

We who have lost loved ones to a different enemy have broken hearts, too. I hope we can come here sometimes and find some help for those hearts.

Cancer takes away more than just a life. It takes with it love and hope and futures. And leaves a broken heart.

There's no question, it beats differently now.

-- Laurie

7:00 AM ET | 11-12-2008 | permalink

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A Ted Koppel documentary focuses on his friend Leroy Sievers' "My Cancer" blog and the response it evokes.

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A journalist for more than 25 years, Leroy Sievers worked at CBS News, the Discovery Channel, and ABC News, where he was the executive producer of Nightline. He wrote this blog daily until his death in August.