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Best release of 2012.
Just as we begin to feel discouraged about the direction in which America is heading a strong young voice, a voice of experience, is telling us very clearly that the American Dream is NOT dead.
Every American should read this autobiography by Lopez Lomong, a Lost Boy of Sudan, who dreamed of becoming an Olympic runner for the United States.
Six year old Lopepe (born in 1985) was part of a large group of children rounded up and kidnapped by Sudanese rebel solders in 1991.
The little boy was taken under the wings of three bigger boys who helped him escape, running in the wrong direction for home. Eventually the children crossed the border into Kenya, where they were put in a refugee camp. The bigger boys, whom Lopez calls "angels," vanished and were never seen by him again.
In the Kenyan refugee camp, work, running and soccer helped fill ten long years.
Food was limited and there were no school supplies. Lopez received the rudiments of education with teachers offering lectures and children writing answers in the dirt, using sticks as writing implements.
In the year 2000 Lopez and several other boys crept out of the camp, paying a local farmer to let them watch an old black and white television powered by a car battery. Seeing Michael Johnson, the defending Olympic champion and world record holder in the 400-meter dash on that tv, Lopez developed a dream for his own future. He, too, would some day run in the Olympics for the United States.
Lopez Lomong believes it was God who led him to learn about the Olympics and who helped him win an essay contest. The contest allowed him to be sent to America where he lived with a supportive American family, earned both his high school and Bachelor's Degrees, received his citizenship and ran in the Beijing Olympics for the United States.
His youthful impressions of 9/11 and of experiencing Americans coming together as a people are very powerful, very moving, and extremely important.
"Running for My Life" is a true story of a young man whose hard work and faith in God has allowed him to achieve his personal dreams. We pray that his new dreams of bringing pure drinking water, public education and medical services to Sudan also come true.
Excellent book. Inspiring and motivating true story.
Kim Burdick
Stanton, Delaware
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Running for My Life: One Lost Boy's Journey from the Killing Fields of Sudan to the Olympic Games
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