A Lebanese Immigrant Becomes a Proud American

A Lebanese Immigrant Becomes a Proud American
Roy Abdo (2nd L) with the students who picked him up at the Kansas City, Missouri airport in July 2006. Courtesy of Roy Abdo
Andrew Thomas
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Roy Abdo left Lebanon in 2006 to study abroad for three weeks in Greece. However, while he was gone the 2006 Lebanon War had broken out. Lebanon’s international airport had been destroyed, and Abdo was unable to return.

“I felt like incapable. I felt things are just happening beyond me, and it’s above my control and I can’t do anything about it,” Abdo told The Epoch Times.