Vet spends Christmas with daughter he never knew he had

DNA test leads woman to her biological father; the family speaks out on the 'complete surprise' on 'Fox & Friends.'

[@MrNathan791]

These are truly his grandkids, they all look like him when he was a young man. I Love this story. Ancestry connects a lot of loved ones.

[@hadeev]

His grandson looks a lot like he did as a young man. I wish you all the best in life and love.

[@dawnartates2504]

GoddessHadeev Likwidluv I totally agree with you!!

[@JenShea]

Right!!

[@sharaleenmcshane2210]

What an amazing reunion. Congratulations.

[@justicewillprevail1106]

I can’t believe his daughter is 50. Wow. She ages incredibly well.

[@pingyu5141]

Probably the Asian genes....

[@kingking-qj5bp]

Ping Yu that explains why she looks younger. I am 65, but a lot of caucasians who are just in their 50s looks older than me.

[@tanamly]

She's half Philipino.. That race ages WELL ... And they are the loveliest people on the planet ! Simply beautiful 😊

[@pingyu5141]

@@kingking-qj5bp i'm also on my 60's with dominant caucasian ancestry, but with about 10% filipino blood, but i could still pass as 20yrs younger as people would think, and get amazed when they find out.

[@katrinasoledad8463]

Thank you,@@tanamly

[@j.m.5995]

The grandson and grandfather are a spitting image of each other!

[@C5Ron7]

God Bless this young Lady finding her Dad, NOT all stories of Vietnam Vets turn out this well. Fantastic!!!

[@natalieschiltz7870]

Her son looks just like his grandfather.

[@being_miranda784]

Her son looks just like he did!

[@llee8825]

How wonderful! Gary's grandson looks exactly like him.

[@saingmckinnon6631]

Yes !!! was amazing ! my daughter 47 years old just find her dad the same way she did yesterday . and we from Thailand and he in the Navy also .

[@carxcel]

The grandson carbon copys his grandfather.

[@dawnsmith6610]

This is beautiful. Im so happy that the father is such a nice man and that he was excited and happy when he found out that was his child. It doesn't happen that way allot of the time how sad that is. But not in this case! So happy for them! To find you have a child and 3 grandchildren and a great grandchild. Instant big family!

[@rrhotj]

military service is in the genes. he just met them and then he finds out that all his three grandsons are serving, following paths that are similar to his :)

[@gillianfrancis3726]

Only one

[@gogan3429]

@Jeane.... i think that may say more about the kind if opportunities that our economy has, rather than choice

[@kevintsui7499]

@@gillianfrancis3726 all three. the older two enlisted.. west point is a prestige school for officers.

[@ozymandias8523]

They are serving in america or vietnam?

[@takaogibson845]

@@gillianfrancis3726 4 total. They have pics showing with this interview.

[@billwilliamdexter2300]

What a great story and a miracle. It shows how great this man was in his career.All good things come towards a soulful person in his life time.Enjoy your Xmas.

[@jessiemoreno4845]

Wow Ryan looks exactly like his grandfather,seeing the pictures of his grandfather when he was young he looks just like his grandfather, So happy for all of u,,,

[@NikkisavvPlays]

nobody’s talking about their shirts!!!! so cute i’m so emotional 😭😭

[@btsdancestudio5691]

What a beautiful story. Thanks. His grandson looks exactly like him. No DNA test needed.

[@janeking194]

What a wonderful ending,I'm so glad they found each other, I wish you all years of happiness together xx

[@JoMamaLuvsReptiles]

How proud Gary must be. 1 daughter and 3 handsome grandsons.

[@poodledog8479]

Soo happy you all found each other. This is so wonderful. God Bless you ALL.... What a wonderful story.

[@mallows9225]

Wow u are so lucky u found each other...my mom never got to meet his American father who was stationed here in Cebu, Philippines during WWII... Happy for u

[@theopinion9452]

What I find strange is that not a word was said about her Mom back in Philippines,if she still lives there or if she is alive.

[@lindajacobs1487]

@@aaronbarrera464 Is your grandmother in Olivia's life now? How old was Olivia when she was taken away?

[@patriciawickholm3617]

@@lindajacobs1487 Taken away?

[@penparnsailarm7094]

I had a feeling that she had been adopted out

[@lettysammy1327]

She died already

[@WHANAUPEACE]

Yep. I wonder why??

[@juneosborne7523]

PRAISE GOD FOR THAT FAMILY!!!

[@dinh5532]

Handsome grandsons!

[@betsybean4054]

I broke down in tears from this segment. God bless your Gary & daughter.

[@carolswaller9756]

This made me wonder if my brother that was in the Navy in the early 1960's might of had some children in Japan or the Philippines he visited both places many times while he was serving in the United States Navy! That would be awesome to find out! Although my brother passed away last year! I wish that I knew for sure! It would be awesome if he did!

[@sandrawilson6031]

Her sons are handsome too as well as great grandson. Wow! What unexpectedly blessings from God.

[@bobmeyer854]

Amazing how it's not just looks that run in the bloodline. 3 grandsons in the military is not a coincidence, at least to me it isn't.

[@grumpyg9350]

Great story. Brought a giant smile to my face. Kinda like finding cash under the mattress, 50 years later.

[@Afterburner]

Great story and a wonderful outcome.

[@davehardy252]

What a beautiful story I'm glad for both Gary and Olivia that they found each other after all this time what a pity this didn't happen year but as the saying goes better late than never God bless Gary,Olivia and his 3 grandsons who I believe are all serving military members may the Lord and his angels protect you from all harm Gary and your family

[@paulacopeland2000]

So happy for the family.

[@MrN2hendrix]

God Bless your family

[@gwenwilliams3119]

His grandson looks just like him.

[@jefferygreene8538]

Amazing genes his grandson looks like his grand dad when he was young - look at there chin and mouth.

[@butchbinion1560]

That’s just wonderful. ✌🏻👊

[@pickering666]

Someone had a good time during war time...

[@LGAussie]

Do lee Yeah, I’m surprised they were so sexually free back then, especially with someone who leaves and then comes back? I guess the Philippines didn’t have abortions, and thankfully she didn’t, or maybe she always hoped he would cone back? Such an amazing outcome for all of them. This Veteran really had such a nice turn around in his life. Great story.

[@drewwagner4802]

wow, amazing story.

[@tuumuch8216]

shes so beautiful for 50

[@LGAussie]

Tuu Much My Mother is 57 and looks 39 or 40. She’s full blooded Grecian, from Greece. Even her breasts are like a 25 year olds??!

[@LGAussie]

OtherwiSe known as the 'Bruk' I’m a female! Dork! 🤣👍🏻 What makes u think I’m a male anyway? I have Beyoncé as my profile BFF. Geeze?

[@grumpyg9350]

L G : I too thought you were male. Hummm. I'm going to think this one out. I hope it's someone just a simple as wording and not something more sinister. ✌️❤️

[@KA-eu9sy]

I love their T-shirts. Wishing them the best now that they're all reunited.

[@henrymartinez4030]

This was a great story.

[@WHANAUPEACE]

She is beautiful too. I wonder where the mother is?

[@jgjg3848]

So, why aren't we discussing her mother? How did this daughter end up in America?

[@andiniwirawan]

Most likely, the mother know that the father was an American soldier and because she doesnt know how to contact him, she basically gamble her life for a slight chance that by going to USA the daughter can meet his dad or she can meet her lover

[@rogerdunn5491]

Why should we discuss the mother. People are allowed to have their private personal life and not have everything splashed all over public media, they can share what the choose to. How the daughter came to America is non of our buisness. Several ways-all legitimate, what difference does that make.

[@berenicemadrid5708]

Probably she was adopted for a american family!!

[@joannathesinger770]

@@berenicemadrid5708 No. Her mother probably immigrated to the US when Olivia was a child.

[@ynnalyl6195]

grandpapa looks dashing when he was younger...

[@erikmichael3493]

Olivia is half Filipina, but they didn't discuss her childhood during the conversation. That would have been an interesting way to know more about her.

[@wingsmith9003]

One thing for sure, Olivia must have grown up in America... You can tell from her English and her perfect American accent.

[@rogerdunn5491]

@@wingsmith9003 Why shouldn't she speak perfect English. Many persons speak two or more languages perfectly. and it is obvious she has lived in the United States for a long time as all her sons are in the military here. and it is very common for Philippinos to speak English from a young age.

[@joannathesinger770]

@@rogerdunn5491 SMH!!! I live near a military base, with lots of people the world over...and while some of them speak English, they don't speak "perfect" English without an accent. Ever!!! Olivia grew up in the US and Tagalog is not the primary language she spoke at home.

[@jerrilynhenson9024]

So happy for you.

[@user-ev7fk2us5o]

She looks so good / young Asian genes ., amazing story 🥇🏆🏆❤️❤️🇻🇳🇺🇸vet

[@La19930]

Where’s Olivia’s mom in all this? It would be great to do a follow up on her too...

[@671guamnevermindroad9]

God bless you all

[@malmotumotu5218]

The son look like her dad!Amazing

[@karatefightfitnessdrills5430]

That's what it is when you have a girlfriend in another country then leave them. It happens a lot with these military men.

[@ad70.93]

Hey..soldier don't spray your bullet,.hahaha🤣🤣🤣

[@shagwellington]

Too bad they couldn't have met sooner. She sure looks great for 50. My brother in law has a Thai son from his service in the Air Force during that war. He was in his 20's when his mother tracked Larry down. Very happy reunion or meeting. Must be tens of thousands of children in SE Asia fathered during the war.

[@mariaeuv7694]

Shag Wellington I agreed with you about who knows how many kids oversea fathered by American soldiers.

[@shagwellington]

I have read that the Eurasian kids have been discriminated against by the pure Vietnamese. The whole war was a shameful mess, thank you LBJ. Those Dad's needed to step up. I'd love to meet a child I didn't know I had.

[@WHANAUPEACE]

What about the daughters mother? Where is she and how is she?

[@haivannguyen6812]

Happy New Year big family!

[@rebtolentino4343]

No word about her Mother,is she still alive ?

[@janicescott7338]

His handsome grandson’s got his eyebrows from when he was young.

[@sonny8992]

My Mom is also a child of an American serviceman here in the Philippines during WW2. I was able to locate her father way back 1996 but he died two years earlier. I sent our picture to the eldest daughter, her father have (He married when he went back to the US after the war and had six children) and she commented that i am a look alike of her father when he was 18. One thing I discovered was that her father named them both Brenda, as a way of my grandfather to remember his first born child in the Philippines that he was not able to see. For 72 years now, my Mom's wish is to be able to have that one day, where she could finally see her six siblings for the very first time... just one day, and that is slowly fading....

[@moviejose3249]

Nice story but why is that meeting slowly fading from happening.

[@davehardy252]

Hopefully 1 day it will happen so I pray for you God bless you all involved in this story

[@3005sh]

@@moviejose3249 money

[@gxbmb]

gary, you ARE the father

[@csu3524]

Lol

[@folag]

His 50-year old daughter (who looks more like 40) is Filipina. Some of the prettiest women in the world are Filipina, who also are very loving and devoted wives.

[@Team-iv5uo]

That Olivia's dad shirt made me cry.

[@themishmish101]

Best lottery win ever.

[@solarguy1702]

I don't get it. I was in Japan and gave my girlfriend my parent's address and phone number PLUS the address and phone number of my best friends. No way would I leave her hanging.

[@sdrake74]

wow daughter's lookn good for 50 !!

[@AuthorLHollingsworth]

His grandson looks just like him. DNA, don't lie!

[@oliveraucoc2146]

Great story, but where’s Olivia’s bio mom in all of this?

[@metutubi]

go to Japan, Thailand, South Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, laos and most notably Philippines, you will see a lot of AmerAsians...

[@LGAussie]

two2bee They call it something other than AmerAsians, but I can’t think of it now. I can always tell those mixes too cause the Asian part is softened a lot.

[@maryshaffer8474]

Are they more successful than non bi Asians.

[@julianho7672]

wow...............

[@karenbantiyan6025]

Amein. She is a half Pilipina. Great testimony indeed. Bless your family & long life Sir Barnes.

[@mariusvanniekerk7707]

Read some of the comments, and as a step-dad with no children of my own, I just want to say that it might be extremely hard for the step-dad to digest this. Hope she isn't pushing him away if he was a great father to her.

[@stevens.9299]

How did the daughter end up in the States? Thank you in advance.

[@aquarianfirehorse667]

adopted

[@dwightneisler3844]

How and when did she get to the U.S.?

[@mariecabaneshucamis]

❤️😭😭😭

[@JK_JK_JK_JK]

The man on the right should also be wearing a t-shirt which states how he is related too! 🤔

[@curtisday9534]

I had almost the same problem. Had a daughter born in 1970 that was given away by her grandmother when she was a couple years old. I was told she died so never tried to locate her. When she was twenty she was found alive but I wasn't told that her name and birthrate had been changed. So couldn't locate her at that time and her grandmother wouldn't help. Another twenty years went by before she located her real mother who told her where I was. The first time I saw her she was 49 years old.

[@bladegriggs4090]

How did the reunion go?

[@AuthorLHollingsworth]

This is a family of military men. Wow!

[@MusicforMe123]

The fact that she went through life not knowing her father or mother is very painful, every year she had to endure the emotional roller coaster when it came to mother and father's day. You can clearly see the joy and love in their faces, with Gary's wife just as excited it's an added blessing. If something like that happened to me, I would wake up every day with a smile. Such a fantastic family, best of luck to them all.

[@mlang20]

there is a lucky man

[@lilibethmorales8247]

She itself in the States married to an American man with 3 children in military also

[@car54whereru83]

Why don't they say where Olivia's mother is? Sounds like she grew up in USA.

[@eaglewhitefeather0183]

That's not news. Go to the P.I. you will find a bunch of those!

[@phdcravenmoorehead5039]

Eagle Whitefeather01 that is fact

[@raymund0880]

"those" ???

[@Talimer0218]

Phd Craven Moorehead realllllyyyyyyyyyy... !

[@Talimer0218]

Eagle Whitefeather01 bunch of those!?......?

[@jatterberry7623]

Where is the ladies mother at now ?

[@lisawaters2585]

She looks like her dad.

[@suewomack5960]

grandson looks like him!!

[@1105pitbull]

Heavy family resemblance to say the least.

[@joechino9022]

I am happy for them

[@nillyk5671]

One of his grandsons look exactly like him.

[@yuyidavis-cedeno1903]

🇺🇸♥️🙏🏼

[@theresa.leriaalexander5680]

Where's Olivia mother too put the puzzle together,

[@johnnyapplejax2405]

3:38 so she is Philippina not hispanic.

[@Talimer0218]

Johnny AppleJax wowwwwww

[@katerh3198]

@Morris Anderson She said she was looking to see if she was hispanic :)

[@peterrod5239]

Filipino are Hispanics mix. Philippines been under Spanish rule for over 500 years,

[@adrianalainez8499]

Hispanic last name you're Hispanic. Very simple.

[@jakesworld823]

@@peterrod5239 not 500 years.. 300 plus

[@maryvalentine9090]

This is the second clip I’ve seen about this story. It’s very interesting. But the question that pops up in my mind is how did this story get picked up by the media? Why is it a public story? Not judging, just curious.

[@bt.c.1829]

The 8 of us just found a new brother! Now there are 9! He's my next youngest brother! What a thrill to discover a family secret with a great outcome!

[@moitsmeo5441]

I am so happy for them. I recently found a 1st cousin match (who reached out to me 1st) who decided that ahe would not ask her parents to verify who my Dad was. This has been an emotional time for me. I would just like to know who he is. And just like this lady, my father has no idea that I exist.

[@kathyyoung1774]

Didn't her mother know who the father was?

[@fargetofargeto5494]

I don't like fox, but love this.

[@vivianferchaw3325]

Did he just say he never had children

[@dexterskyder3006]

She never said the other half

[@superfly8158]

Dexter Skyder from the philippines

[@maurarussell9471]

Where is her mother?

[@massai7367]

Where isbthe mom?

[@joyvice8342]

She wants to know if she's Hispanic? I thought her mother is from Philippines? How did she get to the U.S.??? Where's her mother?

[@WanderingShadow100]

Daughter and grandsons should lock the old man up in a room..just in case he wants to run away again.

[@youtubechangedmyname]

Wonder how is the Mother aka “Girlfriend”

[@poppykok5]

What??? Where do you hide your empty moonshine bottles...

[@youtubechangedmyname]

poppykok5 What yourself ? Are you dense? They sit here and make a big deal about the Father but what about her Mother. I am not allowed to ask that? If I was Her I would equally want to know the fate or health of my Mother. My moonshine bottles ? I dont know ck your fat ass.

[@youtubechangedmyname]

mas360 Yes very strange

[@ubuusg]

She could be deceased and they don't want to speak ill of her, could of been a period of her life she is not proud of, who knows. It's 50 years in the past, they acknowledged she didn't tell him/know his identity, so no point dragging her name through the dirt.

[@youtubechangedmyname]

ubuusg Nobody said drag her name thru the dirt. I personally wouldnt judge her actions 50 years ago either. I would just want to meet her or know her fate. Possibly deceased ok why not say that then , no reason to "speak ill of her".