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One very special adoption was 11-year old Song Young Cho (1953). Song was the first child to be admitted to the United States under a new law for Korean War orphans. He is also special because as a war refugee he lost his legs and feet to fostbite during the fighting around Seoul (1950). His feet legs had to be amputated. His only known relatives were either captured or killed. After the amputatiio, the boy was then on his own to fend for himself. An American seviceman found him painfully crawling in the streets with his shoeshine box. Sgt. Harold J. Douglas with six kids kids of his own set the rest of Song's story in motion. An American Army medical team not only fitted Song with new feet and legs, but he has learned to walk withonky a light limp. Mrs. Richard Gormanson was waiting for him at the Seattle Airport. It was her husband who fitted him with his new new feet and legs. With his cowboy hat and blue jeans, he looks like any normal American kid when he arrived in Seatle. Boys' Town in Omaha, Nebraska took Song in. Before that he and appeared on American televisiion and saw a basebvall game at Ebbet's Field. A newspapr article describes Song as always having a smile on his face which is incredible given what he had gone through. A newspaper photo with att Ebbet's field shows Song with one of the biggest smiles imaginable.
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