the story of a lost boy from sudan

The sound of automatic weapon fire blasting through his small hut startled the small boy awake. He called for his uncle who lay

beside him, but fell silent when he felt the pool of hot blood. Terrified and confused, the child fled barefoot into the dark woods

where it seemed that thousands of others were running, in all directions.Part of a swarm of fleeing children, John Deng James only

knew that he had to somehow escape the horrifying scene. He had no way of knowing that those first harried steps were the

beginning of an epic and torturous journey. Although James and the other children eventually stopped running, they kept walking.

They walked for days, then weeks, and finally, months before realizing that they would never return home or see their families again.

James belongs to a group of refugees referred to by aid organizations as the "Lost Boys of Sudan." Named after Peter Pan's cadre

of orphans, some 26,000 Sudanese boys were forced by violence from t...