Anne and Dwayne Hood
27th January 2007, 07:03 PM (19:03)
The book I have just read is Escape From Slavery by Francis Bok with Edward Tirvan. He was kidnapped in the southern part of the Sudan when he was seven years old. He excaped ten years later. He never got to see his paretns and sisters again, but later learned in the US that his brother was alive. You may have seen the tall guy in the balcony beside Kaura Bush, when the president was making his state of the union address. He is six ft. 6 inches tall. You may enjoy reading it. I did, and Dwayne is reading the book now.
Our daughter and her family have worked with a family from the Sudan the last few years. We have visited them and the lady has been to our house. Every time she is at our daughter's house, we go over and visit with her, her son and the grandchildren they are having to raise. They still have two sons in a refugee camp in the Sudan.
When they came to the states, they had not seen her oldest son in about 15 years. He and another teen ran off to escape being captured and required to fight with the rebels. He ended up in the US and married an Afro American women, and they had a baby. Now they are divorced. His parents get to keep the baby a lot. One of their sons is in college now, and is going through a lot of cultural shock.
If you have a chance, please help these precious people that are coming to America when they get an opportunity to. The Arab, Muslim people in the northern part of The Sudan, look as the southern ones as animals...to be worked and beat like properety that they have and can treat as they please.
Our daughter and her family have worked with a family from the Sudan the last few years. We have visited them and the lady has been to our house. Every time she is at our daughter's house, we go over and visit with her, her son and the grandchildren they are having to raise. They still have two sons in a refugee camp in the Sudan.
When they came to the states, they had not seen her oldest son in about 15 years. He and another teen ran off to escape being captured and required to fight with the rebels. He ended up in the US and married an Afro American women, and they had a baby. Now they are divorced. His parents get to keep the baby a lot. One of their sons is in college now, and is going through a lot of cultural shock.
If you have a chance, please help these precious people that are coming to America when they get an opportunity to. The Arab, Muslim people in the northern part of The Sudan, look as the southern ones as animals...to be worked and beat like properety that they have and can treat as they please.