An Army veteran, stationed in South Korea in the 1960s, is desperately searching for his long lost children.
Allen Thomas is using social media to try and reconnect with the twins, who would be 47-years-old.
Over the years, Thomas has encountered so many roadblocks in his search for his twins, he's afraid. Click here the see the photos.
"I don't like to get my hopes up," Thomas explained. "And I'm getting old."
Thomas was a young man when he was stationed in South Korea.
He got married. Twins James and Sandy were born on September 10, 1967 at Songnim Gynaecology in Namyong-dong, Seoul.
"They were always together," Thomas remembered.
Thomas extended his tour in Korea for as long as he could, but he eventually had to leave in 1969. He went to Vietnam so he could be closer to the twins.
In 1971, he returned to Korea for a visit. That's when he last saw his kids.
His marriage was rocky. Thomas said his wife refused to return to the Unites States with him or allow the kids to go with him.
They were just 4-years-old when he last saw them. He had a sense that goodbye would be final.
"Things were so bad, I was honestly thinking about taking my kids and leaving," he explained.
But he knew going AWOL wasn't the answer.
Back in the United States, he still tried to be a part of their lives. He sent money, but eventually he divorced their mother after she disappeared and he had no way of finding her.
"It just turned out different than I expected," Thomas said.
Thomas remarried. His new wife helped lead the search for James and Sandy.
He's held on to every single photograph and every document in his desperate search to find them. He wrote letters to the State Department and various lawmakers, asking for help.
His biggest break came in 1980, when he learned the kids were adopted to an American family in 1976, without his knowledge. That's also where he hit a dead end. A letter from the Pearl S. Buck Foundation reads "Mother (natural) will not give address of children, stop."
"I'm not out to ruin their lives or drive a wedge between them and their adopted parents. No way," Thomas said.
Since his wife passed, his daughter, Charlene, took up the mission.
They recently turned to Facebook. In just a week, their post has been shared more than a million times all over the world. A group page, dedicated to the search, is growing by the thousands.
"We've been praying for this for a long time and I think this could be the step that leads us to a miracle of finding those two," Charlene Roberts said.
Thomas is still afraid to get his hopes up. But he wants James and Sandy to know he's never forgotten about them.
"I just want to say, how much I miss them. And I did not abandon them," Thomas said, "Maybe they felt like that, but that wasn't the case. Because I certainly didn't."
Thomas wants a relationship with the twins, but he understands the kids may not want anything to do with him. He'll respect their decision, but he wants them to have access to mementos or family medical history if they want it.
Most importantly, he just wants to know that they're okay.
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