VETERAN FROM WOODBINE, IOWA SEARCHING ON FACEBOOK FOR HIS LOST LOVE FROM JAPAN CAPTUDRE THE HEARTS OF PEOPLE ALL OVER THE WORLD OUR STORY OF HIS NEARLY 70-0-YEAR JOURNEY COMPELD STRANGERS TO HELP 91 YEAR OLD DWAYNE MAN. FIND PEGGY YAMAGUCHI JUST NINE DAYS AFTER OUR STORY AIRED MICHELLE BANDUR. IN TOUCH WITH PEGGY SON AND TONIGHT ON KETV NEWSWATCH 7. SHE TAKES US ALONG FOR THE LONG-AWAITED REUNION. HOW MANY OF US GETHE T CHANCE TO FIX SOMETHING UNRESOLVED FROM OUR PAST? EVEN AT AGE 91 DWAYNE MANN NEVER LOST. PEHO HE'D GET THAT CHANCE. THIS GIRL THINKS I ABANDONED HER AND THAT'S THE CRUX OF THAT'S REALLY THE CORRECT SOME WHY I'M HERE. IT'S THE MOMENT. HE'S BEEN WAITING FOR I PRAY THAT I WOULD BE ABLE TO DO THAT FACE ON FACE FOR NEARLY 70 YEARS. PEGGY HIS LONG JOURNEY FINALLY COMES TO AN END. IT'S A MOMENT IN TIME. THAT WAS A MOMENINT TIME THERE. YOU KNOW THAT MOMENT IN 1954 WHEN DWAEYN LAST SAW HIS FIRST LOVE PEGGY YAMAGUCHI WHEN HE WAS STATIONED IN YOKOSUKA JAPAN SHE WAS PREGNANT WHEN THE 22 YEAR OLD, IOWA FARM BOY GOT HIS ORDERS. THE NAVY WAS SENDING HIMAC BK TO THE STATES. SO HE LOVED PEGGY BEHIND. WITH THE PROMISE HE'D SEND FOR THE WOMAN. HE PLANNED TO MARRY. BUT WHEN DWAYNE RETURNED HOME FROM THE KOREAN WAR HE FOUND HIS FATHER HAD FALLEN ON HARD TIMES AND SPENT DWAYNE'S SAVINGS AND THEN PEGGY' LSETTERS STOPPED COMING OR SO HE THOUGHT HE DISCOVERED LERAT HIS MOTHER BURNED THE LETTERS. SHE DIDN'T WANT ME TO MRYAR A JAPANESE GIRL ONE FINAL LETTER AR SO PEGGY WROTEHE LOST THE BABY AND MARRIED SOMEONE ELSE. IT WAS OVER. THEN THAT SET IN THAT IDEA THAT I ABANDONED HER JUST JUST WORE ME OUT. THAT'S NOT AN HONORABLE THING TO DO. I THINK IT'S A COMBINATION OF GUILT AND CONFUSION AND AND SADNESS DWAYNE SON. BRIAN HAS SUPPORTED HIS FATHER'S LIFELONG QUEST TO FIND HIS LOST LOVE SO HE CAN CLEAR HIS CONSCIOUS WE THEM TO SEE YOU KNOW, IF THIS IS TRULY THE PEGGY THAT MY DAD IS LOOKING FORRDWA IN EARLY. MAY WE REPORTED ON DUANE'S LONG SEARCH HIS UNIVERSAL SRYTO OF HEARTBREAK AND HOPE THE STORY WENT AROUND THE WORLD JAPANESE MED. SHARED MY REPORT VIEWERS EMAILED AND POSTED OBITUARIES AND PHOTOS WANDERING IF THEYAD H FOUND PEGGY WHILE DWAYNE WAS IN IOWA SEARCHING FOR PEGGY. SHE WASN'T A' OCEAN AWAY IN JAPAN. SHE WAS CLOSER TO HIM IN IOWA THANE H COULD HAVE EVER IMAGINED ONLY 650 MILES ACROSS THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER AND A FEW STATES HAS KEPT THE CPLEOU APART ALL THESE YEARS WHAT THE HECK IS GOING ON HERE. YOU KNOW, IT KIND OF SCAM ARTIST IS THIS ONE THAT'S RICH STUDENT QUEST THOUGHT WHEN HE LISTENED TO MY VOICEMAIL ASKING HIM IF PEGGY YAMAGUCHI WAS HIS MOTHER ONE WAY TO FIND OUT I'LL TAKE MY BLUETOOTH HEADPHONES OVER THERE AND BROUGHT THEIR LITTLE YOUR VIDEO CLIP AND I PLAYED IT AND SHE SHE RIGHT AWAY. I REMEMBER HIM THAT HE REALLY LOVED ME. YOU KNOW PEGGY IS ALEIV ALERT AND 91 YEARS OLD LIVING WITH HER NAVY HUSBAND. SHE MARRIED IN 1955 AND THE SAME MICHIGAN COMMUTYNI WHERE SHE RACED HER THREE SONS IN ESCANABA. SHFI AGAIN HE'S ABLE TO FULFILL HIS DREAM HIS LIFE-LONG DREAM TO FIND THE WOMAN THAT HE HAD MET AND FELL IN LOVE WITH AND SFFTU AND 70 YEARS LATER. WHAT A WONDERFUL STORY. IT'S YOUR MOM. YEP. IT'S MY MOM AND I LOVE MY MOM AN ARTICLE DATED, FEBRUARY 3RD 1956 FROM THE LALOC ESCANABA NEWSPAPER THE DAILY PRESS WAS THE KEY IN FINDING PEGGY BROUGHT TO OUR ATTENTION FROM A WOMAN IN VANCOUVER, CANADA. ALL MY STORY ONLINE SHE TELLS ME SHE WAS COMPELLED TO ACT. I FEEL LIKE IT JUST CUT ME LIKE RIGHT TO MY SOUL 23 YEAR OLD. THERESA WONG IS A RESEARCHER FOR THE HISTORY CHANNEL. SHE FNDOU THAT OLD NEWSPAPER ARTICLE WITH THE HEADLINE TOKYO BREID LIKES LIFE AND ESCANABA THAT GAVE US A LAST NAME TO GO ON AND AN ADDRESS IN THE UPPER PENINSULA. I CANNOT IMAGINE CARRYING AROUND THAT KIND OF HEARTBREAK FOR 70 YEARS. I REALLY HOPE ATTH THIS IS JUST THAT OPPORTUNITY TO GET CLOSURE AND REALLY LIKE A RELEASE FROM ALL THOSE YEARS OF WORRYING ABOUT IT. GPI GY HOW ARE YOU? OH MY GOD. NICE 15 YEARS. YES. OH. THANK YOU ATTENTION MY GOD. WELL, I'M TIREDNESS. IT'S BEEN0 7YEARS. YOU REMEMRBE THE DANCING? OH, YEAH, AND IN ANOTHER IMPORTANT MOMENT WITHOUT SKIPPING A BEAT THE PAIR STARTS REMINISCING ABOUT TIRHE SPECIAL TIME IN JAPAN DOING IT ALL DAY, JITTERBUG. YEAH, RIGHT. YEP. YEP. I WAS SCARED AT FIRST. I THOUGHT MAYBE MY MOTHER AND DWAYNE WOULDN'T TALK LIKE THEY DID BUT WHEN THEY STARTED RAILING AND TALKING AND IT WAS ALL WORTH IT. IT WAS ALL WORTH IT FOR ME. IT'S A GREAT EXAMPLE. AS MY DAD HAS ALWAYS BEEN. TO YOU KNOW, JUST DO DO FOLLOW YOUR HEART AND BE KIND PERSON AND NOT BE AFRAID TO TAKE A STEP. IN OTHER PEOPLE WON'T. AND YOU KNOW, IT'S IT'S AUTHENTIC. TO ME AND I THOUGHT ABOUT THAT ALL MY LIFE. TH IAT THE WORD WORRIED THAT YOU THOUTGH THAT I ABANDONED YOU AND I'M HERE TO TELL YOU THAT I DID ABANDON YOU AT ALL. I JUST COULDN'T FIND. AND THAT'S THAT'S ALL OFHEM AND REMEMBERING SAVE ALL THE PICTURE. YES. YOU MUST LOVE ME. I DID AND IF REGRET WASN'T ENOUGH OF A REMINDER YOU GAVE ME THAT PICTURE DUANE SHARED WITH PEGGY HOW HE KEEPS HER CLOTHES WITH PHOTOS AND HIS BILLFOLD. HE KEPT TSEHO OF HIS WALLET FOR 70 YEARS. THAT'S WHAT HE SAID DWAYNE LEFT AN IMPRESSION. PEGGY O,TO WHAT'S YOUR MIDDLE NAME, DWAYNE? D U A N E NOW I JUST CAME TO LIGHT HOW I REALLY GOT THAT NAME AND I WASN'T BY HAPPENSTANCE IT WAS FOR A REASON I BIEELVE IT MAY TAKE A LIFETIME, BUT WHEN YOU'RE OFFERED THAT MOMENTT WHETHER IT BE ROMANCE OR RESOLVE. JUST ASK DWAYNE MANN. IT'S REALLY BEEN A PRETTY EXPERIENCE FOR ME SEES THE MOMENT AND NEVER GIVE UP TO FIND. PEACE. DIDOU Y FEEL ABANDONED? YEAH. YEAH. NO NO AND ESCANABA, MICHIGAN MICHELLE VANDOREN REONAS AND ALL OF THAT. IT'S ALLY M GOSH ALL THESE YEARS YOU SAVE THE PICTURE OF ME. OH MY SHOW YOU MUST HAVE THANK YOU VERY MUCH. VERY MUCH AWAY ATV, NEWSWATCH 7 SWEET REUNION. OKAY, IN CASE YOU'RE WONDERING ABOUT THE BABY THE COUPLE HAD A PRIVATE CONVERSATION IN THE SONS DID THE MATH AND FIGURED
