Meet Barak. That's Barak like the army lodging, not the president.
Barak is like most 13-year-old boys. He has discovered the secret to twisting a plastic water bottle into an air-pressure-powered projectile weapon. He enjoys free T-shirts and putting his buddies in unprompted headlocks. And like most 13-year-old boys who grow up in the middle of the country, he dreams of being on a football team and hearing a packed stadium cheer his name.
The only difference between Barak and the rest of the sixth graders in Greentown, Indiana, is that he knows that will never happen.