Marine vet dad and daughter meet after more than 60 years following DNA site link-up
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Decatur, Alabama — A father and daughter who spent more than half a century apart found each other through a DNA testing site and got together this 4th of July weekend, reports CBS Huntsville, Alabama affiliate WHNT-TV.
Marine Corps veteran Thomas Williams, 81, finally got to meet his 62-year-old daughter, Tylin Rosser as well as her children and his great grandchildren face-to-face. The day was filled with tears and laughter.Ashley White received her earliest combat action badge from the United States Army soon after the first lieutenant arrived in Afghanistan. The silver military award, recognizing soldiers who've been personally engaged by an attacker during conflict, was considered an achievement in and of itself as well as an affirming rite of passage for the newly deployed. White had earned it for using her own body to shield a group of civilian women and children from gunfire that broke out in the midst of her third mission in Kandahar province. All of them survived. She never mentioned the badge to anyone in her battalion.