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Dilkusha by the Gingko Tree

Our Seoul Home Beside Our Historic Tree

Tickell Taylor Bruce Tickell Taylor

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01-April-2010
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Born in Seoul 1919 A nurse thrust Korean Declaration of Independence into our bed. Lifting me, my father found it, cabled Associated Press,photoed Jimare massacre. Forced Governor to halt carnage. Our home, "Dilkusha" built. Father developed sprue, sought California cure, family follows. 12 years of independent schools for me in California and Britain. Father cured, before return,receives cable: "LIGHTNING STRIKE DESTROYED DILKUSHA"! Father returns to Korea, then Mother, to re-built Dilkusha and I in 1937. Learn Japanese and family business in Seoul, gold mining in North Korea. College in California. Regular Army 1941-5 Hawaii, Pearl Harbour Attack, Guadalcanal, malaria. Returning to California met my re-patriated parents from Korean internment . Joined Japanese Language Prisoner of War Processing Company in Pacific.Discharged in California. Father dies, Mother buries ashes in Korea. Delays, saves President Rhee's life. Married former British Consul's daughter in England settled, taught in California two children. Returned to, Seoul with wife and daughter to film TV documentary"Father's Country" broadcast on South Korean National Television. Made Honorary Citizen of Seoul, by, then Mayor, Lee Myung Bak. 2008 South Korean President. Returned home to California, and to finish this book And three years later celebrate my 90th birthday.

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Born in Seoul 1919 A nurse thrust Korean Declaration of Independence into our bed. Lifting me, my father found it, cabled Associated Press,photoed Jimare massacre. Forced Governor to halt carnage. Our home, "Dilkusha" built. Father developed sprue, sought California cure, family follows. 12 years of independent schools for me in California and Britain. Father cured, before return,receives cable: "LIGHTNING STRIKE DESTROYED DILKUSHA"! Father returns to Korea, then Mother, to re-built Dilkusha and I in 1937. Learn Japanese and family business in Seoul, gold mining in North Korea. College in California. Regular Army 1941-5 Hawaii, Pearl Harbour Attack, Guadalcanal, malaria. Returning to California met my re-patriated parents from Korean internment . Joined Japanese Language Prisoner of War Processing Company in Pacific.Discharged in California. Father dies, Mother buries ashes in Korea. Delays, saves President Rhee's life. Married former British Consul's daughter in England settled, taught in California two children. Returned to, Seoul with wife and daughter to film TV documentary"Father's Country" broadcast on South Korean National Television. Made Honorary Citizen of Seoul, by, then Mayor, Lee Myung Bak. 2008 South Korean President. Returned home to California, and to finish this book And three years later celebrate my 90th birthday.

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