View Full Version : Some Touching UM Moments
MavFan92
11-14-2007, 10:06 AM
As heinous and scary as some of those cases are, some are just really sweet. Like the reunions/lost loves cases. Anyone remember these....
The Vietnamese soldier who came to USA in the 60's to train and fell in love with the daughter of the family he was staying with. He got sent back to VN, and she had a baby girl while he was at war. He met the little girl once when she was about five or six years old, then he had to go back. He never saw her again. Until after the UM broadcast when he was reunited with his daughter. :)
A woman named Cathy who lost her mother at a young age, and was abused and molested by her stepfather, who was police. He had her taken away to a juvenile detention center, on the way she spilled her guts to the driver, a prison guard, who believed her. He asked Cathy for a number of a family member that could help her. She was declared an emancipated teen and went to live with an aunt and lived happily ever after. She wanted to find that guard just to say thanks.
The older couple who were sitting on their porch one day when a man who was down on his luck asked them for a meal. They welcomed him in and talked to him, then gave him a little bit of money. The man walked off, they never saw him again. Some time later, cashiers checks began arriving for large sums of money, also gifts and cards from an unknown benefactor.
A woman was pulled out of her wrecked car just moments before it exploded, and her life was saved. She was looking for the two men who saved her.
A Vietnam vet looking for the Army Nurse that helped him and encouraged him to go on after he was crippled.
nohwheregirl
11-14-2007, 04:02 PM
Those are all good ones. Even though I don't usually like the Lost Loves segments that much, there are some that really get to you.
2 that always get me:
1. Fritz and the American and German soldiers who spent Christmas together during WWII. I cry every time I see this. Darn you, Fritz! ;)
2. Another WWII story: The Czech(?) girl that made a hideout for soldiers in a cave in the woods. I love that she called them "her boys" and considered them like her children even though they were probably all older than her.
Another Vietnam story...the Asian-American soldier who found his old friend who save his life, an African-American soldier (the names escape me) more than twenty years after they were seperated.
People who I always felt for were Curly the clown and that old guy who played Santa. Curly had a son but for whatever reason left and joined the circus. Or was it the other way around? Was he left? Anyway, I think it was the son who was looking for him. I don't think there was ever an update to this case.
The old guy who played Santa was loking for his long lost daughter which he hadn't seen since she was a baby. I think he used to do a radio program. Anyway, the real sad part is what he found out about his daughter. Tragicly, his daughter had been killed many years before at the age of 18 in an explosion or something like that. Sad. :(
Anyone remember this lost loves segment about a young man who went to live with some family on some farm. He fell for the daughter of the land owner. Anyone remember this?
I know it's vague but my mind is confusing me. I want to say that this mans story was fetured because he had passed away and left a fortune and the only known people who knew him, knew his story but not his real name. If that's the case, it's not really a lost loves segment. I'm confused! :confused:
crystaldawn
11-15-2007, 04:44 PM
Anyone remember this lost loves segment about a young man who went to live with some family on some farm. He fell for the daughter of the land owner. Anyone remember this?
I know it's vague but my mind is confusing me. I want to say that this mans story was fetured because he had passed away and left a fortune and the only known people who knew him, knew his story but not his real name. If that's the case, it's not really a lost loves segment. I'm confused! :confused:
As far as Curly I think his daughter was looking for him. She did find him and was able to have a good relationship with him until he died. There may have been a son that Curly had given up that the daughter (Peggy Reyna was her name I believe) was looking for.
The last case you mentioned reminds me a little of Walter "Curly" Green. I don't remember anything about a farm but he did fall in love with this girl. They got separated (he may have went to fight in the war) and when he came back for her she had moved away and he was heartbroken. He seemed to live a pretty reclusive life after that and when he passed away had a lot of money and they were searching for his relatives. Is that the one you were talking about?
That was the one he was talking about. Curly came to live with that family are he ran away from home. After returning from WWI, he returned to the family only to find out that the woman had moved away to Nebraska to become a nurse. Curly followed her their but she was not interested in getting back together. Curly lived in Nebraska for the rest of his life. I remember them mentioning that their were only about five known pictures of him and he once claimed that his brother was killed in a gun fight.
Interesting story.
radar1979
11-28-2007, 05:39 PM
I Recieved and E-mail from the investigator who was searching for "Curly" Green's relatives in 1986 and 88. Believe it or not, none have been found and the case has been closed. The investigator cited lack of "adoption" records in 1988. I still find it hard to believe that a case such as this...with a good starting point for geneological investigation has yet to be solved.
joshypiano
11-28-2007, 06:10 PM
I always liked the case of the two Ojibwa sisters from Manitoba who were looking for lost relatives.
Chris Billings
11-28-2007, 07:26 PM
The older couple who were sitting on their porch one day when a man who was down on his luck asked them for a meal. They welcomed him in and talked to him, then gave him a little bit of money. The man walked off, they never saw him again. Some time later, cashiers checks began arriving for large sums of money, also gifts and cards from an unknown benefactor.
A favorite of mine too:)
Todd Mueller
11-28-2007, 08:53 PM
The older couple who were sitting on their porch one day when a man who was down on his luck asked them for a meal. They welcomed him in and talked to him, then gave him a little bit of money. The man walked off, they never saw him again. Some time later, cashiers checks began arriving for large sums of money, also gifts and cards from an unknown benefactor.
A favorite of mine too:)
I just watched that again the other day from one of CD's volumes. I've always thought that the guy was down on his luck and either had family or friends who heard what those people did for him. Maybe he had amnesia or some temporary condition that he couldn't call his relatives.
It certainly wasn't random that they got all that money.
And indeed, it was a great story!
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