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.
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