My dad and I found each other after 46 yrs in 2013,my mom didn't tell him, he was stationed in Korea during the Vietnam war. He passed away last month. I miss him so much. This video just warmed my heart and made me so happy for them :) I did get a few months time with him, but his wife wanted me out of their lives. I did it for him. He was a kind man and couldn't handle drama and his wife kept it going. I stayed away even when he died she wouldn't acknowledge me or my daughters and grandchildren. I wasn't allowed to see him one last time. I wish the best for them :)
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Glad you got to meet your dad. But what a shame his wife wanted you out of their lives and limited the time you were able to spend with him the last seven years of his life. My sincere condolences to you.
@Gail Coffey. Hey! I’m so glad you got to meet your father, but sorry that you were excluded by his wife! You sound like a kind person, wishing the best for his other family members when you must have been so hurt! Just out of curiosity, and if you don’t mind me asking, were he and this wife married when you were conceived?
thanks for sharing thanks to DNA tests i was adopted during th VN war and ws able to trace some distant cousins after 50 years !!! DNA test can make miracles happen !!
A lot of Vietnam soldiers wives didn't want to have anything to do with the side piece babies...but they should've taken the anger out on their husbands for cheating overseas
Before people criticize. Thank you, Specialist, for your service to our nation. Father and daughter. A blessing for father and sister. Blessings to the people of the former Republic of South Vietnam! A current Soldier.
@Justin Time its beautiful. I am always happy to see people found new love. I am lucky to have my birth parents the last 43 years and they are still around. My sisters are still around and we do fine. So it is very touching to know some people are not as fortunate to have families around them in their lives, but they finally got what they were wishing for. They missed a lot of love already. I am touched to see reunions like these and people connected with their long lost family members.
My daughter went missing in 1970. She was abandoned by her mother and I came home from Vietnam on Red Cross orders to find her. She was a year old. Her Mom got custody and she hasn’t spoken to me for 48 years. I miss her, but she doesn’t wish to communicate. Thanks Vietnam. Now with Agent orange issues I suppose I will never see her. But that’s her choice. War is hell on families.
Unreal.. I had a Vietnamese daughter I never knew about.. met her when she was 47 years old.. her name was also Hang! She has 3 children so I gained a daughter and 3 grandchildren. We talk on the phone and text because we live 700 miles apart.
@Von Fields Yes, but there are so many. children in womb or just born left behind when we drew down. Some even earlier. We are finding children through ancestry DNA. Daddy died in VietNam 51 years ago, had he had an unborn child or an already born child, I would have a sibling to look for after 51 years.
@Doradus Mega You know nothing about military leaving with the Unit...they could not put a woman in their knapsack, nor could they stay behind. I can't sicken you because I am educated and an Associate Professor. Those women were not raped, but were forced by a society of poverty to be prostitutes that carried U.S. Military babies long after the soldiers return to the states. You can't even write proper English. Your emotional reasoning has no research from the VietNam war....you are just spewing, and it is elementary level.
This warms my heart even today. Bond and enjoy the time with your families, if you can, people. Welcome home, children of the war; you are loved and you are welcome. Peace brings us together.
Saini88able I feel you mine died 43 years ago and when i see things like this it makes me wish there was a way or that my dad was just out there somewhere but then again knowing he didn't just leave me is a good thing as well. mine did choose his motorcycle over his life when he could have just let the cycle get hit and he died bcz of it so he was dumb but at least he wasn't a dead beat dad! i am sorry for your loss, and i hope yours hasn't messed you up in the head as much as mine has me!
When I was a child my father made contact with his birth mother. He discovered his biological father was a US serviceman stationed in New Zealand prior to shipping out to the pacific war from which he never returned. The relationship though brief was wholesome but in 1940s New Zealand unmarried mothers were not accepted so my father was put up for adoption. My biological grandfather never knew he had a child on the way when he was killed. My father eventually found the parents of his biological father and the whole family travelled to the US to meet them. Although I was only a child at the time I felt that the meeting and subsequent contact helped heal the broken heart of parents that lost their only son 40 years prior.
Glad he never gave up on his daughter and vice versa. I was born out of wedlock in Germany and my American "father" left my mother and I. Spent a few years looking for him but he's passed now being that I'm up in age too. On second thought, I think I was better off without him.
Miller Time well I’m married to 40, and live in Milwaukee, love the username FYI, so yes I’ll take all those years as long as they aren’t from Wisconsin
I would love to be so emotionally in aww.... but this is so sad. How many 10s of thousands of Vietnamese women were knocked up by married American soldiers, who just left them high and dry after the war. Now the children are walking around looking for their fathers (or the mothers that were forced to give them up because they couldn't take care of them). This is the 3rd story like this recommended to me in 2 days.
Exactly! These "hero's" raped so many women, often at gun point and now we are suppose to get all weepy when something like happens? Most Vietnam deployed were stoned 90% of the time. Don't believe all this "patriotic" flag waving BS!
kendall Evans I’m not saying some didn’t get raped, most of the women were attracted and had willing relationships. I’ve seen so many of these videos, I stoped counting!! I live around a LARGE Asian community, not to mention the ones I’m related to (through marriage). I’ve heard of many first hand account stories. This is something that happened in most wars. I’ve used to have WWII vets come to my work with there German wife’s. the difference was government policies where more difficult on Asian wives or fiancés. Many become separated and had couldn’t find each other. It truly was a sad and hard situation!
@@synecdoche8783 They couldn't take their partners with them you muppet. Do you actually understand history? I'm British, but even I know they couldn't take partners with them once the USA pulled out. What you are posting is an idealized point of view, but it wasn't reality or gonna happen.
@@overthewebb lots of the guys were married so why would they take them over? it's nice to see another British person (one of the largest sex-pat participants) to defend this sort of thing, planning on flying to thailand soon?
They are half-sisters, not step-sisters. They have the same father. Half siblings are related by blood through one parent. Half siblings share around 25% of their DNA.
sung by Peter Polycarpou, 1989. Peter sang this song so well. But, more importantly, the actual footages of the Biracial orphans were heartbreaking. Also, as a 2nd generation Vietnamese American, I want to thank your Father for his service and "Welcome Home."
My granddaughters are 1/4 Chinese, the first one looks more Asian than her little sister who is much lighter with blue eyes and takes after her strawberry blond father.
There are countless children born to Vietnamese women and US soldiers! Some of those children were brought to the US during Operation Babylift. Others were left in Vietnam. Some of those left eventually came to the US. Hopefully the DNA websites can lead to more reunions like this one! PS- not that I'm the grammar police, but in the title, veteran is should capitalized!
This dude is a real warrior, he went there to fight and being brave enough to found love with the "enemy", now both cultures are between woven forever...
@nishant kumar So, who are you to make that question or affirmation, so how you know there was no love from him to her mother, who do you think you are to make that judgement, for me is clear who is the stupid here...
@Hanoi Andy ESL Did you realize I wrote "enemy" implicit that means there was no valid reason to participate, but by that time they truly believe so, the context how she got born those facts I don't know it, I'm not saying those things you say never happened, but you cannot generalize 100% and every single case was exactly the same situation... that is the proof that who needs more education in this matter is you a not me... people like you still living a suffering from the past, I could say the same about the Spanish conquerors in latin america, but guess what, from all that mostly bad things they done to my ancestors there was a mix that become what we are now, as people we have the best from both cultures, I'm not saying economically because in that case if you wanna bring that argument then I will have to ask you to read a few books about the historical facts and then you can talk about it...
@Hanoi Andy ESL It looks so pity for me when someone who is so "wise and knowing the whole true about the world" and specially about something that happened so many years ago but still making purely assumptions to get a final conclusion but mean while needs to make so many arguments about so many different things to probe one single point, in conclusion, still living the past, merely ignorance, you can't change the past, it was right or wrong, nobody can change it, so even when there is something that for most people the final looks pure love, you still looking for the negative background on this history, if you wanna debate about historical political facts about any war then go to the appropriate video, this one is about love, again, so pity when people behave as you do, try to get some happiness and joy in your life and let the ghosts to live on the past and the alive on the present...
I was going going to comment on how those sisters look identical, though I go through all the comments and was not disappointed. Here I am commenting on the same thing
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So happy for them...the sister's look so much alike! Beautiful! I'm proud to say that I had taken part in *Operation New Life* in 1975. It was a tedious process here on Guam, and being that I'm from the village of Asan, I was fortunate to meet/befriend many of the evacuated Vietnamese people and orphans at the Asan Annex , a temporary tent housing/quonset huts location for the operation. My father, a retired Army Staff Sergeant had served honorably in Vietnam for several years. The stories of this chapter of his life were moving as he accounted some memories what he had experienced while stationed there that truly had an affect on him. During Operation New Life , my father would have me take cooked food, rice, cans of SPAM and clothing to these evacuees that I had passed to them over the chain linked fence of the tent enclosure. They were so appreciative for the little things we could provide them with. I'm so happy this father was finally able to reunite with his daughter. So moving... God Bless
I’m little late with this news, but never late for a few words of comments. I surely agree with you all that this lady and the half sister like 95% an identical Twin!!! Family reunion should have been so emotional, surprising 😊and happy and dad probably the happiest of all because she is his own lost blood now is found and NO DOUBT she is his!!! Congrats to your happiness sir and thank you for your service in VN helping my one time country to fight the bastards commie there!!! 🌹💖🇺🇸👍👍👍
I have an aunt overseas I've never met but my other aunt tracked her down a few years back. I think it's so cool to have an asian auntie, wished I met her! She'd be around 60 yrs old now.
There were TENS OF THOUSANDS of children fathered in Vietnam during the war. In which 23,000 where allowed to come to the US during the Amersian Homecoming Act of 1987-88. I'm so glad this turned out so special.
