The most striking thing Jok said upon returning from Sudan was, “Now I know why people are so happy to see their family, it is so good!” Jok Kuol Wel, now 25, hadn’t seen his family since their village in Sudan was attacked when he was only five. He became part of a group of 40,000 Sudanese boys now known as the Lost Boys of Sudan, who were all traveling opposite their only guide, the sound of gunfire. They walked hundreds of miles from Sudan to Ethiopia, back to Sudan, and finally to a refugee camp in Kenya. The Lost Boys traveled on bare feet, with no parents, no food, through torrential rains, swam across a branch of the Nile River, and braved attacks by lions and hyenas. It sounds like fiction; even to those that lived through it, but the fact that at the end of the journey only 20,000 remained proved its sad reality.