Children’s Hope Family Story in Associated Press: They Share a Heritage--New Mom Returned to Vietnam to Adopt

Tami Herman knew she didn't look like the other kids. She desperately wanted to fit in. So the Vietnamese dolls went in the trash.

But when Herman, 33, was ready to start her own family, adopting a child from her homeland "was a given."

--ALAN SCHER ZAGIER, Associated Press

Tami Herman smiled broadly while watching her new daughter pass from aunt to uncle to grandparent on arrival home from their adoption trip to Vietnam, May 15. Tami and her husband Jason finalized 6-month-old Olivia’s adoption from Kien Giang Province almost 33 years after Tami was escorted from Vietnam to the same St. Louis airport to be adopted by her Missouri parents.

Read the AP article on the Hermans and the growing number of Vietnam War orphans returning to experience the joy of adoption for themselves.

Post updated on 12/18/07 with PR-inside.com article link; Rolla Daily News link no longer active.