Sunday, the Cleveland Plan Dealer published a good story: 20-year search bring father, daughter together. about the reunion of Andrea Luane and her father Jim Cole (aka Jimmy Ray Griffin--the name change is a big part of the story.) I'm not posting the entire article, but here's a couple excerpts:
She didn't know that her father -- who had served in a clandestine Special Forces unit in Vietnam, working with the CIA -- had changed his name after the war to Jim Cole (the name of his mother's second husband).
He got married and he and his wife, Danielle, raised two children.
Cole, now 69, of Berea, said he changed his name because he wanted to avoid being connected to some of the military operations that were classified for more than 30 years, and possible retribution for his role in those missions.
Laune said she and her birth mother eventually drifted apart. "A lot of times these things don't really work out, and that's OK," she said.
She still had a father to find...
and
"Never a doubt, but regrets," he added. "If only I had known, things could've been different. She wouldn't have had the difficult childhood that she had. She could've lived in a loving home, with a father who loved her"...
Congratulations to Andrea and Jim! You beat the system.
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