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04-30-2014, 10:45 PM
Some things are best left in the past.
This type of venture is unlikely to bear any fruit that is without bitterness and pain.
Life can be cruel sometimes.
But I see this type of sentimentality as ill conceived.
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04-30-2014, 11:03 PM
5/10 WNB, housemaid type on display everywhere at current location (Singapore).
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A US soldier searches for his Vietnamese son
04-30-2014, 11:05 PM
Quote: (04-30-2014 10:45 PM)Quintus Curtius Wrote:
Some things are best left in the past.
This type of venture is unlikely to bear any fruit that is without bitterness and pain.
Life can be cruel sometimes.
But I see this type of sentimentality as ill conceived.
I think it is a combination of things best left in the past and too little too late. Probably the former caused by the latter in no small part.
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A US soldier searches for his Vietnamese son
05-01-2014, 12:28 AM
I was helping a half Filipina/half black American woman find her father. The results weren't encouraging, looked like he was dead from the records search.
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05-01-2014, 12:39 AM
I have a half-brother or sister in 'Nam that my dad fathered during his tour in 'Nam that've I've never known that's in their 40s and sometimes I'm curious about meeting him/her but what would be the point? It'd be no different than meeting some random stranger.
That my dad doesn't care about him/her doesn't help things either...
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05-01-2014, 05:03 AM
It struck me as so indicative of America's imperialist tendencies. We fight foreign wars, invade countries, fuck the women and leave.
Don't think there will be many Pashtun or Iraqi kids fathered by American occupiers though.
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A US soldier searches for his Vietnamese son
05-01-2014, 09:06 AM
So what kind of reaction did the Vietnamese women have towards men twice their own native mens size? Was it a question of bigger is better game?
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A US soldier searches for his Vietnamese son
05-01-2014, 09:30 AM
Quote: (05-01-2014 09:06 AM)Foolsgo1d Wrote:
So what kind of reaction did the Vietnamese women have towards men twice their own native mens size? Was it a question of bigger is better game?
More primal than that. They had guns and could kill you and your family. I'm sure some VC and NVA benefited from that game, too.
Plus chance to go to the Big PX.
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05-01-2014, 02:52 PM
The sad fucked up thing is, the guy in the picture and story would be considered "beta" by today's modern Western women.
Instead of a sexy Vietnamese piece, he'd have a white whale pushing babies around the commissary and base housing.
Thus is what I witnessed with similar doe-eyed skinny guys in the military who had wives literally 2-3x their size.
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05-01-2014, 03:00 PM
Are still a lot of these Amero-Asian kids (now in their 40s) in Vietnam, or have most of them been sent to be adopted in the US?
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05-02-2014, 12:37 AM
I have a half sister my father had with a girl he dated before marrying my mother. Must be in her 40s now. I also don't really see what the point would be in seeking her out. Other than genes, I have no common history with this girl. I've wondered, sometimes what became of her, but I given that the woman's mother was a prostitute with a drug problem, I doubt she's doing all that well.
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05-02-2014, 01:41 AM
We probably all have half brothers and sisters floating around out there.
That is if our fathers were anything like us.
The less fucks you give, the more fucks you get.
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05-02-2014, 02:12 AM
It's known that my father cheated. I probably have other half siblings I don't know about besides that one woman.
I remember seeing these reality shows or documentaries where someone spends years looking for their estranged half brother or sister or whatnot. Each time there's this dramatic scene where the person in question locates their long lost relative, knocks on their door, give them the big reveal, and suddenly the two are reduced to tears, drool and snot.
Call me heartless, but if some long lost relative came knocking on my door and started blubbering all over me, I'd likely feel a bit creeped out and think to myself "Nice to meet you and all, but I think you need to get the fuck outta here. Let's be facebook friends."
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05-02-2014, 02:13 AM
Quote: (05-02-2014 02:12 AM)Sargon of Akkad Wrote:
I remember seeing these reality shows or documentaries where someone spends years looking for their estranged half brother or sister or whatnot. Each time there's this dramatic scene where the person in question locates their long lost relative, knocks on their door, give them the big reveal, and suddenly the two are reduced to tears, drool and snot.
Call me heartless, but at the most, but if some long lost relative came knocking on my door and started blubbering all over me, I'd feel a bit creeped out and think to myself "Nice to meet you and all, but I think you need to get the fuck outta here. Here's my Facebook."
Yep!
"Add me on facebook, maybe we will go for a beer sometime if I am in the area" is about as far as I would go.
The less fucks you give, the more fucks you get.