** FILE ** Republican presidential hopeful former Sen. Fred Thompson participates in a live radio broadcast at the Iowa State Fair Friday in Des Moines, Iowa in this Aug. 17, 2007 file photo. Thompson is one of three presidential candidates – Thompson, John Edwards and Joe Biden – who belong to a club that no one wants to join: parents who have lost children. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)
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