From Sudan to San Antonio: how a refugee became a U.S. Airman

SAN ANTONIO -- Around the time much of America was worrying about Y2K, a child, orphaned by civil war in Sudan, sat down in a refugee camp in Kenya to write a letter.

The letter was signed by Dominic Luka who followed an assignment given by a nun caring for other Lost Boys of Sudan, the name given to thousands of children orphaned by Sudan's civil war. ...