For over 1,400 years, Muslims have been making their holy pilgrimage to the sacred site of Mecca. In modern times, approximately two million Muslims make the pilgrimage or Hajj to Mecca each year, a trip required of the faithful at least once in every Muslim s lifetime. Muslims from all over the world come together there, bereft of any outside identity save that of their shared faith. As the place In this exclusive ABC News Nightline program reporter Michael Wolfe takes viewers on his 1997 second Hajj to Mecca. Of the more than million Muslims in the U.S., Wolfe is a convert born the son of a Christian mother and a Jewish father. Wolfe describes
