What can we say about this? Recently released government documents revealed that biracial children, offspring of black American GIS, were sent to the U.S. after the war. The Telegraph reported recently:
"Thousands of illegitimate mixed-race children fathered by American GIs were given up by their British mothers and shipped across the Atlantic, according to newly released papers.
The issue of how to deal with the unwanted offspring of the illicit affairs divided the country towards the end of the Second World War and exposed the racial prejudices of the time."
I wonder whether the soldier-fathers even knew about the children they fathered. I wonder what they might have hoped for them. There is a part of me that would guess that they would prefer the children be raised overseas. My father, who joined the service in the late 1950s, believed there was a greater freedom for him, and for his children living overseas--a racelessness that he had never experienced. I wish we could hear the voices of those children.
