People Magazine: Soccer in the Halls of Congress: 9-Year-Old Syrian Refugee Treated to VIP Treatment at State of the Union

In 2013, Ahmad Alkhalaf lost both of his arms when a bomb struck the refugee camp where he and his family lived in Syria. Ahmad's three siblings were killed, and he now lives in Boston with his father.

Ahmad wrote a letter to President Obama last November, telling his story. "There are many children like me," it read. "Even if they did not lose their arms, then they lost everything else." He signed the letter by holding a pen in his mouth.

Tuesday night, Ahmad watched President Obama deliver his final State of the Union address, as a guest of Massachusetts Representative Seth Moulton.

"When we're talking about the refugee issue, it's real people. It's real people like Ahmad," Moulton told ABC News.

Ahmad toured D.C., taking in the National Air and Space museum before watching Obama speak.

"Ahmad is such a courageous young man," Moulton wrote in a Facebook post. "It was an honor to meet him."\

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