Nothing is guaranteed in life...nothing but taxes and death it has been said. I am an outspoken person, sometimes a bit rude to ignorant persons who ought to know better. I was five years old when I was adopted from a war-torn country, South Korea at that time was only 3 years out of the civil war that killed 3 million civilians and 1.5 million Chinese, North & South Koreans, 22 United Nations troops. My Korean mother met an American soldier who lived with her over three years, from the fact that my sister and I are DNA related. I can remember my Korean mother taking me and my sister to a place in Seoul, Reception center for World Vision. Harry Holt had set up his Holt Adoption Agency to help find homes for tens of thousands of children who wandered the towns, cities, of the South. My mother could not take care of two half-breeds fathered by our birth father, so she had to make a choice for our own good. I was on the first plane of 12 orphans in May of 1956 to leave and my sister came six months later. Adoption is NOT the perfect solution...but life is not perfect, I came to the USA and became an American...I am 100 percent American, yet I do recognize my Koreanness. WHY am I posting this? I have decided that I must finish my book, on this Thing of Ours-Adoption. I must do so to bring some balance to those who bemoan their lives, blaming the adoption industry and adopters as though they were stealing children and using so called white-privilege. WTH? Once more into the Breach, The Korean War Baby is going to take up his Sword of truth against the whiners and piners, who think they speak for the majority of Korean Adoptees (KAD). I lived in Rep. of Korea for 16 years and became very involved in adoption issues. Nothing is Black or White, more like a Spectrum or Grayscale, a broad range of circumstances and well, just like Life. I invite all involved with This Thing of Ours-Adoption to send me Your Story, and if you want permission to put it into my book. working title: Unwanted-the story of a Korean War Baby
Posted on: Wed, 07 Jan 2015 03:27:07 +0000
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