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When my parents separated in 1954 I was only 2 years old and I never saw my father again. 1954年，我的父母离婚了，那时我才两岁，从那之后，我就再也没见过我的父亲。 My mother and her family kept information about my father and his family a secret from me for over half a century. 在将近一个世纪的时间里，我的母亲，还有我母亲娘家的亲戚一直对我守口如瓶，他们闭口不提我的父亲，还有我父亲这边的亲人。 In 2010 I began to search for my father through Ancestry.Com. 2010年，我开始通过Ancestry.Com网站寻找我父亲的相关信息。 However I learned he had died of cancer on August 6, 1999 in a hospital in Dallas, Texas. 没有想到，我得到的是一个噩耗。我父亲早已在1999年8月6日去世，在德克萨斯州达拉斯市的一家医院里，死因是癌症。 When I got my father's death certificate the medical examiner told me because my father had no relatives around the city buried him in a body bag in a unmarked grave in an old cemetery. 我终于拿到了父亲的死亡证明时，当时的法医告诉我，由于我父亲在当地没有任何家属，医院只能把他埋葬在一个废旧的墓地里，墓碑上没有名字，遗骸入殓于廉价的裹尸袋之中。 I knew my father served in WW2 so I decided to work on getting his remains brought back to my state to be buried in our national cemetery. | 
