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FBI agents have a reputation as hard-boiled, tough-as-nails crime fighters. But employees in the agency's Chicago office recently stepped out of character to give a seriously ill 6-year-old boy a day to remember.
It all started when Special Agent Michael Rees read the Tribune's April story about Sammy Nahorny, the Nebraska boy who became the first patient at Comer Children's Hospital to undergo a unique high-dose radiation therapy for neuroblastoma, one of the deadliest of pediatric cancers. The treatment required that he be confined to his room, mostly alone, for almost a week because he was so radioactive.
"My wife insisted I read the story ... it touched her because of the isolation, because our son had a short stay at Comer and because Sammy wanted to be in the FBI," Rees said.
