Korean Adoptee Returns to South Korea for the First Time as Wife of Camp Humphreys Commander

In the Stars & Stripes they have an article posted about how the Camp Humphreys garrison commander’s wife is a Korean adoptee who has returned to Korea for the first time since she was a baby:

Tara Graves poses between her husband, Army Col. Seth Graves, right, and her birth brother, Kim Hyung-bae, during a recent reunion in South Korea. (Kim Hyung Bae)

Tara Graves celebrates her birthday Saturday in South Korea, her first since she was born here more than 45 years ago.

Graves, 46, a personal fitness trainer and the wife of Camp Humphreys commander Col. Seth Graves, is among tens of thousands of South Koreans adopted to families around the world in the decades following the 1950-53 Korean War.

In 2020, the Army sent the Graves family from Brussels to South Korea, where Seth took command of the largest U.S. military base overseas. 

The new assignment hit home for Tara Graves: She had not been in South Korea since she was adopted at 6 months old, she told Stars and Stripes in December.

Stars & Stripes

You can read more at the link.

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ChickenHead
ChickenHead
2 years ago

I have seen all I need to see.

People who take selfies with a mask on are so hopelessly cucked, they can serve only as an object of ridicule.

…especially if they live together.

…and they are why the rest of us can’t have nice societal things.

They deserve nothing but hassle for their enthusiastic overcompliance with programs that even the government has grudgingly admitted don’t work… after saying they do… after saying they don’t.

Bonus: what is “personal fitness trainer” a euphemism for. Would that be “too old to strip anymore”?

Flyingsword
2 years ago

CH well said

Linda Chudej
Linda Chudej
2 years ago

Wow! How great is this! I’m so happy for Mrs. Graves. My husband was stationed in Gyeonggi-do from 1966-67 so he was one of the thousands of American G.I.s who went to the camptown clubs & paid the prostitutes, the mothers of so many of the Korean adoptees. Those children, from my research I’ve learned, had a very difficult time since they were of mixed blood & the G.I. fathers were unknown in many instances. My thought of course is that my husband fathered one or more of these adoptees since he frequented the clubs on “five or six occasions” according to him. That’s five or six children he could’ve fathered! I worry about the possibility that those children did not have the loving family & success that Mrs. Graves has had. May she continue to thrive & may her husband be successful in commanding Camp Humphreys.

setnaffa
setnaffa
2 years ago

Linda, you should stop posting your Ls and just move on with your life.

As a guy who has survived multiple cancers, can tell you life is to short to waste on people who disrespect you.

Find a good church and new friends and live a happy life.

ChickenHead
ChickenHead
2 years ago

Linda, I feel your pain.

But… honestly… there comes a time to move on.

That time is less than 50-some years.

You are angry about a world that doesn’t exist anymore. Your rage at what has passed from reality to legend decades ago will change nothing… because there is nothing left to change.

Your bitterness now only hurts you because there is no longer a target for it.

Accept it as a done deal… and make your life so fantastic that past trouble becomes so insignificant that it seems funny in hindsight.

Good luck.

Bro-tip: Admit nothing, deny everything, make counter-accusatuons.

ChickenHead
ChickenHead
2 years ago

Linda.

I gave you sincere advice to raise yourself above this troubled past in hopes it would bring happiness and make you better and more functional person.

Then I checked out your social media to see if there was anything else that could be done.

Now I must seek calming solace in the arms of a prostitute to regain my mental health.

Really? Trump’s “expression was funny”?

There is medicine for this.

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