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With her brother on her back a war weary Korean girl tiredly trudges by a stalled M-26 tank, at Haengju, Korea. June 9, 1951. Maj. R.V. Spencer, UAF. (Navy)
Via IMCOM-Korea.
It makes you wonder whatever happened two this brother and sister? Could they have eventually made it to one of the orphanages established by Colonel Russell Blaisdell?
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1:42 pm on July 23rd, 2009 1
My wife (then 4 years old) was a refuge from Seoul when it was captured by the North Koreans. She tells me of being carried on her cousins back, and getting frostbite in her right hand from the cold. (to this day the frostbite is obvious). So I do not know what happened to this child, but I do know another, who now lives in Florida, with a swimming pool, (with a fountain) and all the conviences in life, and who is happy.
4:16 pm on July 23rd, 2009 2
When I used to hang out with the onpost firefighters at Camp Eagle (20 years ago), one of them carried his sister to Pusan on his back. His parents were going to just leave her but he decided to carry her.
Such is the tragedy of war. A lot of them didn't get carried and were left for dead.
1:16 am on July 26th, 2009 3
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7:44 pm on August 25th, 2009 4
I am just curious if anyone here has any knowledge on war orphans during 1952-1958. My mother is a Seoul native of Korea.She is around the age of 56. We have searched everyone hoping to just gain insight to find any family members that are possibly alive. She was adopted during the war and she has never known any real family. Im certain there must be someone left in her family there and that is her life dream to find her family. Any info to assist with this search please help our family.
8:45 pm on August 25th, 2009 5
Korea has long maintained family heritage registries, so under normal conditions it would not have been very difficult for a Korean to trace their family. Of course, much of that broke down during the war. Few child births were properly registered during that time.
My guess is you would have to start in reveres; learning the circumstances of the adoption and trying to find the facility or agency that processed it. Even then, you would still need to be incredibly lucky finding a relative, especially since she was from the Seoul area, as some of those families were displaced to North of the border.
North and South are reported to be considering another set of family reunions. I wonder if they would consider cooperating on a trans-border DNA registry.