Her diagnosis of a rare cancer caused by asbestos exposure came a decade after she had been exposed to an asbestos pit at Camp Arifjan in Kuwait. "Deployment killed her. We just didn't know it yet ...

Bercich traveled to Kuwait to spend a week with a Minnesota-based nonprofit that provides special meals and encouragement to service members. "I was at Camp Arifjan," Bercich said. "I'm sitting ...