INDIANAPOLIS -- A group of fathers brought together by tragedy are turning their pain into hope for other families who have lost children.

The men meet every Tuesday morning in the café inside the north side Indianapolis Hilton to have a cup of coffee and to talk, 6News' Jennifer Carmack reported.

"We sometimes say it's a group we didn't want to join, but were grateful that it's here," said member Adolf Hansen.

While the men started as strangers, they all share a painful bond -- they've all dealt with the death of a child.

"Once I came, I realized immediately this is where I need to be, and all these guys are like brothers to me now," said member Chuck Findley, who lost two sons in a train accident.

Many of the men's stories have made headlines -- Jerry Baker and Mike Laird lost their sons, Jason and Jake, when they were shot and killed in the line of duty.

Hansen lost his daughter, Bonny, when she was hit and killed by a metro bus downtown, while Tom Harford's son, Karl, was shot and killed on the Ball State University campus in 2004.

"I didn't scream, I didn't yell, (I) just mostly (felt) disbelief," he said. "I was lost."

Now group members are hoping to reach fathers across the country with a book called "Tuesday Mornings with the Dads."

"I had talked with other people, but never in a group with just dads, and that was the remarkable part," Hansen said. "The life of our sons and daughters lives on every Tuesday morning."

All proceeds from the book will go to charity. Former Colts Coach Tony Dungy, whose 18-year-old son committed suicide in 2005, wrote the forward to the book.

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