What a great story!
Nice story, it’s good to hear of these to counteract all the negative news.
Thank you for posting this.
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Great story . thanks.
At least it wasn’t Yoko Ono.
Good for him!
He's the big brother, now. :)
I took the Ancestry test. It turns out that the man I thought was my Dad was not.
My bio Dad turned out to be some guy my mother had a fling with while she was married to the man whom I thought was my Dad.
She lied to both us. I will never forgive the witch.
All the years I thought I was half Polish, in actuality, I’m half Scottish.
Just found this out a year ago. Too late for me to know my bio Dad’s family. He and his siblings are dead.
Something similar happened to me but not through a DNA test. I am in my 70’s and I found out a couple of years ago that I had a half brother I never new I had. He was dying of cancer and his daughter was going all out to find out who his mother was before he died.
She managed to locate my first cousin who heard of the story from her mother, my mother’s sister. Also she is a big researcher of our family tree. So she contacted me and gave me the information and left it up to me to make the final decision.
Anyways I decided to contract her and I sent the daughter all the information I had along with a picture of “our” mother. So he at least died knowing who his mother was.
He was a Green Beret BTW.
Great story!
With so much bad news washing over us, this “Crack in the clouds” is much appreciated!
Japan, following WW2, was a basket case. A large population but little resources (why Japan started the wars)! If it had not been for MacArthur and Korea, it might have taken longer, but both happened and Japan became a miracle in recovery!
Most of history remembers MacArthur as ‘Dugout Doug’ and the cranky Army General bent on redeeming his promise to the Philippines. Or they remember the mad General who was replaced by the practical Truman when MacArthur wanted to nuke the Korean Border with Red China. What is forgot for the most part is the Shogun MacArthur who pacified and rebuilt Japan between 1945-50. While highly imperfect, MacArthur broke many of the Zaibatsu and the feudal land / agricultural monopolies that worked with the military to control pre-war Japan.
Indeed the changes might have continued if the Soviet Union had been less aggressive and the Red China take-over had not forced the US to encourage a strengthened Japan. Still, the MacArthur Shogunate did much to change Japan from a re-feudalized fascist state to an active democratized polity.
But one thing left unchanged is the rather rampant xenophobia that appears inherit to Japanese and other east asian cultures. The Japanese Nation has their own oppressed indigenous aborigines in the Ainu who were native hunter-gatherers on the norther islands before the influx of the ethnic Japanese (Yamato-jin).
After the WW2 defeat, there were the inevitable relations between impoverished women and the RICH conquerors of the US and the offspring thereof. In male-dominated Japan, such relations were viciously attacked and many suffered and others died. This man’s mother was able to find a better outcome and is to admired for it!
Great history and happy outcome. We, by our LEFTist Masters, are being force-fed a false history of how we are the most racist and hated culture. In reality, we have absorbed ever so many people and cultures that the rest of the world would have mostly expelled or killed. Yet this palpable fact is buried by a LEFT that hates it!
The truth always prevails in the end.
nice story but I am amazed how apparently uneducated so me servicemen are to think sex doesn’t lead to a baby.....just have sex and leave...no consequences.
At the time, I wasn't thrilled about it because I was nine when he got here and I already had five younger brothers and sisters by then (we ended up with four more!)
It was hard transition for all of us - he didn't speak English and after the initial "cute" stage, he was a hand full and was repeatedly being disciplined (that is, beaten) by my parents and captured by the cops for minor stuff - usually swiping magazines.
But when the Vietnam War rolled around, he and I both volunteered - me in the Marines and him in the army. We were both in combat and both of us were wounded and both had full military careers.
He was and is my favorite brother.
I’m currently watching unsolved mysteries and there are a lot of stories like this.
What a great story!
Great story.