Pacific Stars and Stripes, 22 January,
1953
HQ Rycom, Jan. 22-M/Sgt. Harold
A. LaRose, now with Battery A, 65th Antiaircraft gun battalion, Ryukyus
Command on Okinawa, this week received word that his Korean protégé
arrived at his parents home on New Year's Day.
Sixteen year old Kim Hong Song is now busy becoming
acquainted with the American way of life while living with his foster
parents in Glen Falls, N.Y.
Kim and LaRose, who initiated the Korean Orphan's
sponsorship and adoption, met in the field of the South Korean village
of Poen during the United Nations northward drive in the fall of 1950.
During the Sergeant's stay in Korea he and Kim became fast friends.
Then LaRose and some of his fellow-soldiers chipped in to pay Kim's
passage to the states, with the understanding he would be taken into
the LaRose family whenever the necessary immigration waiting time
was ended.
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