10. "The Sloggers for Sudan Arrive" at National Geographic Headquarters, September 10, 2007 [an old post but still interesting? . . . ] On a September afternoon over two years ago, I headed down to the Courtyard to watch the “Sloggers for Sudan” finish their 10-day, 203-mile walk from Frostburg, Maryland, all the way to Headquarters. They’d been "slogging" along the C&O Canal since September 1 without food to raise money for the John Dau Foundation. John Dau is one of the “lost boys” who was on the run for 16 years (!) in southern Sudan after fleeing the civil strife, violence, and warfare caused for the last 21 years (!!) by the Arab Sudanese government of northern Sudan (Arab Sudan versus “black” Sudan; powerful/oil-rich Sudan versus fragmented/agrarian Sudan). Enduring the unimaginable, Dau relocated to the United States, learned to read at age 17, and pursued a public policy degree at Syracuse University (my brother’s alma mater). He started his eponymous