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Did anyone else see Datleine tonight? I usually don't bother with it, but tonight it caught my eye. It's about "The Lost Boys", young Christian men from Sudan who are brought to the U.S. by various churches. They followed 2 groups- one in Rochester, NY the other in Seattle. Watching these young men was fascinating. All the things they are trying to learn, such as indoor plumbing, grocery stores, etc. In one shot they were in an airport in Europe. They were fascinated by the running water and the automatic faucets. In Rochester they were taken to Wegman's to go ...

They were just boys when they fled their villages in Sudan in the late 1980s and trekked hundreds of miles on foot through Africa's bush to Ethiopia, then back to Sudan and finally to safety in Kenya. They escaped death from hunger and thirst, crocodiles and lions, disease and enemy soldiers. Now The Lost Boys of Sudan, as they have come to be called, are young men living in America. Thirty-eight of them, now ages 18 to 25, have been relocated to Memphis, where they have discovered that life in America poses a new set of challenges. Coming from the ...

CLARKSTON — After appearing in the new Bruce Willis movie ‘‘Tears of the Sun,’’ John Anyak received a special gift from Willis and the movie’s director, Antoine Fuqua. They spent $20,000 to buy a new artificial leg for the Sudanese refugee to replace the one he wore out in four months of filming in the jungles of Hawaii. ‘‘They did something I will never forget,’’ Anyak said. Anyak, who lives in an east Atlanta suburb, had no acting experience, but the movie needed someone to play the role of an African war amputee. Anyak lost his left leg during the...