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that are often an afterthought in U.S. history discussions. “It was the Afghan war of its time, and in that way it resonates even today,” says David Royle, ex- ecutive vice president of the Smithsonian Channel. “When you hear the details, it’s not that much different from young soldiers to- day fighting in the hills in the Hin- du-Kush.” Lee — about 5 feet 7 inches tall
and maybe 130 pounds — speaks about the war in crisp, economical terms, if not harsh ones. Much of the military’s planning for the con- flict was “horrible.” The night of his heroic, near-impossible march, he was given “asinine directions” by superiors that he proceeded to ignore. “Certainly, I was never afraid,”
he says. “Perhaps the Chinese are all fatalists. I never expected to survive the war. So I was adamant that my death be honorable, be spectacular.” But the documentary and his famed exploits are not what he wants to talk about on this rainy Washington afternoon, in the city where he eventually settled after being detailed to Quantico. What he wants to talk about as
the afternoon gloom settles in the corners of the building’s huge lob- by, as the cleaning people come and go and vacuums turn on and off, is an afternoon more than 65 years ago, long before he ever set sail for the Korean Peninsula. It is the day he told his mother
that he had enlisted in the Ma- rines. Rather coldly, he sees now, he waited to tell her until the day before he left. “She did not say anything when
I told her. Not a single word. But I could tell by her face she was total- ly crushed.” The family was Chinese, but he,
like his father, had been born in Hawaii. They were living in Sacra- mento by the time he was a teen- ager and World War II was raging. His father, an intensely patriotic and proud man (of both China and the United States), sold produce to local markets. His mother raised the children and was “the prettiest
SUNDAY, MAY 30, 2010
A day that still haunts Korean War veteran
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MADE OF METTLE: “I was never afraid,” Lee says. “Perhaps the Chinese are all fatalists. I never expected to survive the war.”
woman in the community.” Lee “totally identified” with the
Marines’ reputation for being the first into combat. He enlisted to counter the stereotype of the “meek, obsequious, bland Asian.” The day after he told his mother, she made him a “banquet-type meal” of his favorite foods. When the family ate, she sat, wordless. She finally went to her room and sat on the edge of the bed. He fol- lowed her and stood beside her. “I thanked her for the meal. I said I had to leave. And then she threw her arms around my waist. She was sobbing. She just cried. She never said anything.” There was so much ahead of him on that afternoon. The brutal- ities of the war, a successful mili- tary career, two marriages. After leaving the Marines, he worked for New York Life for seven years as a trainee supervisor, then nearly two decades for the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association
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as a coordinator of regulatory compliance. He had no children but has a stepdaughter who is now “the closest person to me.” And yet, what haunts him still is his behavior that day, of failing to take into account his mother’s feel- ings.
“I was, more or less, a young
punk,” he says. Later, he adds: “I’m glad I got another 20 years or so to try to make it up to her. She was a great lady.”
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