Pacific Stars and Stripes,
Jan. 26, 1954
PUSAN, Korea, Jan. 25- Eight-year-old
Georgia F. Clow celebrated her first American-style birthday in Pusan
Thursday evening. Her other birthdays have not been so bright. She
was born Jan. 21, 1946, less than a mile north of Korea's 38th
Parallel. Georgia's name was originally Kim Yung Ja, a name that
seemed to hold little promise for her in 1950.
Georgia and her younger brother saw their parents
killed soon after the war began. Later, Georgia and her brother
were separated in the evacuation rush to the south; she has never
seen him again. Army M/Sgt. Mel Clow, of the 212th FA. Bn. saw Georgia
wandering in the Seoul RTO, talked to her and then took the little
orphan back to his own outfit with him. Making the
waif comfortable and changing her name was no new story to Clow. On the
day that he and Georgia met, Clow had been traveling from Pusan after
making the final arrangements to send a Korean boy to his wife
and their three children in Henderson, Nev. It was all right
for Roger, the first adopted youngster, to be with the artilleryman
in the Chorwon Valley until he left for Clow's home in October, but it
was much more difficult for the girl to live in the field with them.
Friendly nurses at the 44th Mobil Army Surgical Hospital have been
caring for Georgia since November. Then last week, Clow was transferred
to Pusan by an understanding General so that Clow and his adopted
daughter could make their final arrangements with the U.S. Embassy
for her added infusion to the U.S.
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