A decade ago, when she was in middle school, Quinn Hennessy went on a field trip to the Salt Lake City Library in observance of World Refugee Day. When they arrived, the schoolkids lined up and were each given 10 cards they were told represented all their worldly possessions.

Next, they moved through a procession of stations; at each one they were required to give up one or more of their cards.

It might be food at one stop, family photos at another, your I.D. card at the next one, then your wallet, and so forth until you came to the last station, where you might have only two possessions left, or one, or none.

That, they were told, is the life of a refugee.

You just keep losing things.

Young 14-year-old Quinn came home that day with a heavy heart. She told her dad, Bob: “One day when

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