Nearly 30,000 Sudanese boys and girls were made refugees from their homes in Southern Sudan during the Second Sudanese Civil War. Displaced from the Bor region of Southern Sudan, children walked to Ethiopia in search of homes. In 1991, civil war in Ethiopia forced the boys to flee to Kenya. For their young lives, these men knew only life in refugee camps, and miles of marching between them' through swamps, chased by lions, and hunted by men with guns. In 2001, nearly 4,000 Lost Boys came to the U.S. seeking an end to, or at least a break from their refugee lives. Some settled in Tucson.
For nearly a month, starting on June 17,2003, the Aspen wildfire ravaged nearly 85,000 acres of the Catalina Mountains in Tucson; including Mt. Lemmon. This presentation is a collection of photos of the fire as I reported it, and Summerhaven today; five years later.
Charley is a World War II veteran who fought from Normandy Beach into Germany. He made the ring featured in some of the photos out of a silver half-dollar while waiting for Eisenhower's orders to cross the Channel to come through. Charley is 83 years old.