{"id":40172,"date":"2014-03-05T07:39:43","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T12:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=40172"},"modified":"2014-03-05T07:39:43","modified_gmt":"2014-03-05T12:39:43","slug":"marine-maj-kurt-chew-een-lee-passes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=40172","title":{"rendered":"Marine Maj. Kurt Chew-Een Lee passes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/thisainthell\/12947892383\/player\/6a900225a8\" height=\"320\" width=\"240\"  frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>AverageNCO, while trolling the obituaries like he does, ran across <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/2014\/03\/04\/6209319\/obituary-maj-kurt-chew-een-lee.html\">this one about Maj. Kurt Chew-Een Lee<\/a>, the first Asian-American Marine officer who passed at the tender age of 88 in his Washington, DC home on Monday;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He received the Navy Cross, the Marines\u2019 second-highest honor, for bravery during a fierce assault by Communist Chinese forces aiding the North Koreans on the night of Nov. 2-3, 1950.<\/p>\n<p>To spur his men to fight, he took off in the darkness on a one-man raid and exposed himself to fire to pinpoint enemy positions for attack. Shouting in Mandarin to sow confusion, he hurled grenades and shot at Chinese troops, who fled. Wounded in the knee, he was shot the next day by a sniper and treated at an Army field hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Unwilling to be sent to Japan for treatment, Maj. Lee took a Jeep without approval and drove with another wounded Marine to rejoin their platoon in Baker Company of the 1st Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment. He was assigned to help relieve a Marine division that was encircled by overwhelming enemy numbers while trying to defend their only escape road in the bloody Battle of Chosin Reservoir in December 1950.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You should read the whole story, and there&#8217;s more at <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kurt_Chew-Een_Lee\">Wiki<\/a>. He went on to deploy to Vietnam, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AverageNCO, while trolling the obituaries like he does, ran across this one about Maj. Kurt Chew-Een &hellip; <a title=\"Marine Maj. Kurt Chew-Een Lee passes\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=40172\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Marine Maj. Kurt Chew-Een Lee passes<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-real-soldiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}