Fred Warmbier, father of Otto Warmbier, holding a press conference in Wyoming, Ohio, while wearing the jacket his son wore when he gave a forced confession in North Korea, June 15, 2017. (Bill Pugliano/Getty Images)

Noam Shalit, father of captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, reacts as he stands in a support tent calling for Gilad's release set up next to the Prime Minister's residence in Jerusalem. Oct 11, 2011. Israel and Gaza's Hamas Islamist rulers agreed to...

No more 4 a.m. telephone calls from a Federal Bureau of Prisons official verifying that he's home. Lots of time on his bicycle tooling around in the fresh air.Such are the seemingly trivial changes in the life of former state Sen. Jeff Smith that, for...