PHOTOS: Finding family, a reporter's search

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Angie with her mother, Annemarie.

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Dad’s sister Angie was just five-years-old when he was adopted.

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My grandfather, Master Sgt. Daniel Brennan, and his wife Lois adopted my dad in April 1953.

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My Grandma Lois.

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Klaus Häusler took the name Terrence Lee Brennan and came to America with his new family.

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A copy of the manifest from the S.S. United States, the ship Dad took to the U.S. in 1954.

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Dad standing on the banks of the Neckar River in Heidelberg in 1953.

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Angie with her mother, Annemarie.

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Dad beside the Neckar River in Heidelberg in 1953.

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Angie with her mother, Annemarie.

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Annemarie Häusler was a 22-year-old employee at the U.S. Army post exchange.

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Kristi and me enjoying a liter of beer at Oktoberfest in Munich.

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My dad’s birthplace. Heidelberg, Germany.

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The street in Edingen, Germany where my dad lived before he was adopted.

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Annemarie Häusler Woods passed away in May 2015.

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Annemarie married Arthur Woods in June 1961.

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View from Mt. Washington in Pittsburgh where Dad’s sister Angie lives.

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The whole family together for dinner in Pittsburgh.

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Angie, Debbie and Dad together in Pittsburgh.

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