ROB KOMOSA

This is a file photo of Robert Komosa, 17, of Arlington Heights during the Rolling Meadows High School homecoming pep rally September 23, 1999. Komosa, who became a symbol of courage and positivity after he was paralyzed during a 1999 high school football practice, has died at his Barrington Hills, Ill., home, March 16, 2013, of a suspected respiratory failure, his family said. He was 30. (Bonnie Trafelet/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)