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Korean orphan adoption, 1956

Korean orphan adoption, 1956

Miller with young Donny; Korean orphan heads for home in Indiana. Big-eyed little Donny stares out of the cockpit as he sits on his adoptive father's lap.

Miller with young Donny; Korean orphan heads for home in Indiana. Big-eyed little Donny stares out of the cockpit as he sits on his adoptive father's lap. Three-year-old Donny Miller is going home to Indiana for the first time next month. His new father, 1st Lt. Robert Miller of the 24th Combat Aviation Company adopted Choi Hyung Don on April 9th, 1956 after a transoceanic exchange of pictures and telephone calls with his wife, Elizabeth Jane, in Evansville, Indiana. Miller and his wife had started discussing adoption of a Korean orphan as soon as the light plane pilot arrived here last year. The chaplain at AFFE Eight Army put Miller in touch with the Chong-Hyon Babies Home in Seoul, where he first saw Donny last December.

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