Do you know him? LOPEZ LOMONG

DO YOU KNOW THIS GUY? IF NOT, HE IS WORTH "google-ing". WHY? HE HAS QUITE A STORY BEHIND HIM. He was the guy that lit "The Torch" at the Beijing Olympics! This is a short summary about him.

LOPEZ LOMONG,

One of the lost boys of the Sudan. He was kidnapped from his village in Kimotong at the age of six. He escaped by tunnelling under the wire fence of the compound and spent days on the run. He fled across the border into Kenya. He lived in a refugee camp for ten years. Seven years ago, he came from DARFUR, to America to live with a Christian foster family. He became an NCAA champion at Northern Arizona University. A year ago to the day of his Olympic selection, he was granted U.S. citizenship. Last year he returned to his village, and saw his own grave, dug by his own family, in absolute certainty that their son was no longer alive.

( I'll be cheering for him. ) RUN LOPEZ, RUN!!!

Welcome to America, and may God bless YOU and YOUR FAMILY.