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Monday, May. 5, 2008

Soldier and Korean he rescued reunited after 59 years

A teenage boy ran through the streets of Seoul, clinging in terror to his family as North Korean and Communist Chinese armies invaded his homeland. »

Wednesday, Apr. 2, 2008

Shipmates reunited after 62 years

Methuen resident Arthur Mansor lost touch with his former shipmate and friend Stanley Moore of Lansing, Mich., after World War II. »

Monday, Mar. 31, 2008

Golfer reunited with paramedic who saved his life

A HEART attack patient has been reunited with the paramedic whose quick thinking helped save his life.
Gerry Wooster, of Bradley, Wrexham, was struck by a sudden heart attack when walking away from the fourth hole at Rhuddlan Golf Club last October. »

Tuesday, Mar. 25, 2008

Dad reunited with sons after more than two decades

A FATHER who had not seen his children for 21 years has been re-united with both his sons thanks to the Chronicle. »

Monday, Feb. 25, 2008

Sisters reunited

A CLEVEDON (UK) woman who has been searching for her half-sister for more than 40 years has been reunited with her at last. »

Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2007

Adopted son finds birth mom at his workplace

For years, Steve Flaig, a delivery truck driver at the Lowe’s store on Plainfield Avenue, Grand Rapids, had searched for his birth mother. »

Friday, Dec. 14, 2007

Reunited With My Dad After 47 Years

WHEN Ken Agland and Carol Wallace met for the first time in 47 years, neither could help shedding tears. »

Mother, children reunited in time for daughter’s 16th birthday party

Beth Gifford was trying to decide what her soon-to-be 16-year-old niece wanted for her milestone birthday. »

Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2007

Family reunited for Christmas

Lien Nguyen spent most of the past decade half a world away from his son. »

Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2007

Couple Reunited After Living Years Apart

“Sonja–here she comes,” says an excited 54-year-old Robb Vannoy. He has waited more than two years to see his wife in Iowa. During that time, the couple led separate lives, his in Iowa, hers in Thailand. »

Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2007

91 y.o. great-grandmother reunited with daughter after WWII separation

A 91-year-old great-great-grandmother was reunited with a daughter she gave up for adoption towards the end of World War II at a pub in western England on Tuesday. »

Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2007

A family reunited by an old photograph

Like many families, we have custody of old pictures that are too precious to discard but frustratingly unlabeled. The long-gone relatives, so stiffly posed in these little portraits, knew who they were and saw no reason to write names or dates on the back. They couldn’t have imagined who would be looking at the pictures more than a hundred years later, wondering about the people, the occasion, even how the pictures survived. »

Monday, Nov. 5, 2007

A meal 22 years in the making

Feet away from Ban Van Phan, people talked about him. They talked about his life. They talked about his feelings. »

Monday, Oct. 29, 2007

Long-lost sisters are reunited in senior home

Dorothy Caudle lived only 300 feet from her sister, but the two had not seen each other in 38 years and had no idea they were staying at the same senior living community in Tempe. »

Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2007

Family reunites after 10 years

After 10 years apart, a family reunited with their son at the Raleigh-Durham International Airport on Monday. »

Monday, Oct. 22, 2007

Reunited after 52 year… and it feels so good

UK — A father and daughter have been reunited after 52 years apart thanks to staff at a Birmingham City Council residential home. »

Turkish Couple Find Swapped Baby After Four-Year Search

NAJRAN — Ali and Yaqub were mistakenly switched at birth in a hospital in Najran where they were born four years ago. Ali, born into a Turkish family living in Najran, was mistakenly given to a Saudi couple whose son Yaqub was given to the Turkish family by the hospital employees, according to a report in Al-Watan newspaper. »

Family Reunited After 22 Years

A nightmare that lasted 22 years is now over. A Blackfoot family has been reunited after their son was allegedly kidnapped by his father and taken to Mexico. »

Thursday, Aug. 30, 2007

Adoptee reunited with long-lost parents

Imagine you’re a young die-hard biker. »

Thursday, Aug. 23, 2007

Friends reunited after 46 years

Two school friends who have lived at opposite ends of the globe for more than 45 years have been reunited and are hoping to find some other familiar faces. »

Soldiers are reunited after 50 years

MORE than 50 years after they were serving in the Army together, nine ex-soldiers met up to reminisce about their time in the Malayan jungle. »

Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2007

Old friends reunited in battle of the ‘pensioners’

Wayne Arthurs and Jonas Bjorkman, with a combined age of 71, creak into action today with wheelchairs at the ready. Both have struck a powerful blow for Wimbledon’s senior statesmen by setting up this throwback of a third-round tie, but Australia’s Arthurs could be forgiven a certain fragility after he needed a fix of anti-inflammatories just to get here. »

Friday, Aug. 17, 2007

Sisters reunited: emotions spill over

MINUTES tick by, a crowd of onlookers forms around them, but still the two slight figures continue to clutch each other with a vice-like grip. »

Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2007

WWII friends reunited after 62 years

Friendships forged during World War II can last a lifetime. Even if two old war buddies are separated by 62 years since last seeing each other. »

Friday, Jul. 13, 2007

Heroes reunite after 60 years

When pensioner Norman Wood hadn’t seen his boyhood pal Ron Rogers since their days fresh out of the Navy, he’d given up all hope of tracking him down. »

Thursday, Jul. 12, 2007

Daughter and dad reunited after 24 years

A FATHER and daughter met up for the first time in nearly 24 years - thanks to an appeal in the Lancashire Telegraph. »

Airmen reunited after 50 years

TWO former RAF servicemen have had a reunion nearly 50 years since they last saw each other. »

Wednesday, Jul. 11, 2007

Reuniting with the parents who really cared

Thirty-five years ago the state removed Olga Burgos from her Hispanic birth home and sent her to live with a white foster mother in the suburbs, sparking a landmark federal lawsuit that bore the little girl’s name. »

Tuesday, Jul. 10, 2007

What’s a few miles - or years - among old friends

Stan Ernst, 78, left his home in Nova Scotia first thing on Saturday morning. »

Thursday, Jul. 5, 2007

Family reunited after 39 years

A poignant story with a happy ending… Family members separated nearly 40 years ago have been reunited just in time. »