For his whole life, Kirk Kellerhals believed that his parents had died in the war in Vietnam—where he was born. He never imagined that he would reunite with his real mother for the first time in America some 47 years later.
Kirk was just 2 years old when he was adopted from an orphanage in Vietnam. His mother was a young Vietnamese woman named Thuy-Nga Thi. His father was an American serviceman.