The Lost Boys

The Lost Boys were named after the boys in Peter Pan, but there really isn't much of a similarity between them. In Peter Pan, the boys didn't want to grow up. These boys were forced to grow up much too fast, otherwise die from various things, inculding starvation, gunpoint, or animal attacks. And all most of the world did was stand by and watch, at least at first. Sure the boys got help, but only after thousands of them died. But, I guess that's how it always is. Who cared about the Jews, the Tootsis, or the African farmers in Darfur? Countries, especially the U.S., like to look like they're doing so much to help in every world problem, but really, not much gets done. People die, people in other countries are horrified and donate money to the Red Cross, and still more people die. In Sudan, those boys were forced to walk hundreds of miles, battle wild animals like crocodiles, and run from the shots being fired at them. They were starving, tired, and homesick. They boys were just children. Countries "helped," but still they ran from country to country, fighting for their lives.
Governments makes me sick.