Mrs. Sue Badcock
City: Pipers River
State: Tasmania
Country: Australia
Email: spatchies@optusnet.com.au

Hi. My name is Sue Badcock and I have a beautiful daughter who now has grown into a gorgeous woman. She was one of the babies from the airlift in Vietnam in 1975. She was four and 1/2 months old at the time and weighed nine pounds in old weight. She now lives in Traralgon in Victoria with her husband, Dean.

I have often wondered where Elaine Moir now resides as she would be able to tell Bredienne so much of that few months of her life. Bredienne and her husband are off to Vietnam for a holiday very soon. Bredienne was made for me and she has given me so much joy throughout her life. She has been a wonderful daughter.

Cheers,
Sue Badcock

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I just wanted to take a moment to tell you how much your site about operation babylift has touched me. I stumbled upon it by accident tonight while researching international adoption and I've been reading for the past hour
and a half.

As a little girl I was reading an article in one of my grandmother's magazines when I saw an article about a single mother that had adopted a little girl from Romania. I announced to everyone, with the exuberance and innocence of a child that that was what I was going to do when I grew up. That article changed my life. Over the years as I've grown up and learned more about the thousands of children that are without parents and love, it's become my passion to help them. I still want to go overseas and bring my own child home some day, but I know I still have a ways to go before that happens. I'm in college now, working toward my degree and hoping it leads me somewhere that I can pursue my passion of helping orphans. I'm trying to save up enough money to volunteer overseas at the moment, and am not really picky about where I end up, just so there are children there that need love. I might not be all that talented, but love I have plenty of. :)

All children are special to me but I've always had this feeling the little girl I hope to adopt one day is Asian, thus the reason I was reading about new developments in Vietnamese adoption online. :) The operation babylift site and Heather's story touched me because above all else I think her story is about love. It's not about politics, or paperwork, or laws - it's just about a little girl that needed a family and a family that loved her for as long as they could. And still loves her. :) Her smile and the smiles of children like her is the reason I'm so passionate about helping orphans and giving them love.

It's easy to get caught up in what I can't do as a college freshman on the other side of the world, but your daughter's story has reminded me why I keep trying and her spirit is an inspiration. She'll never be forgotten, not as long as I'm here to remember her story, and she's still touching lives, and I thought you'd like to know that.

God Bless You
Mary Wester