Wai P. Lwin
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Age: 27
From: Queens, N.Y.
Assigned to the 1st Battalion, 69th Infantry Regiment, New York Army National Guard, Manhattan, New York
Incident: Army Spc. Wai P. Lwin was killed March 2 when an improvised explosive device detonated near his military vehicle in Baghdad. Also
Died: March 02, 2005
U.S. loses first Burmese-American in Iraq war
Radio Free Asia
WASHINGTON —Wei Pyoe Lwin has become the first Burmese-American soldier killed in Iraq, just two weeks after he refused an offer of home leave to attend the funeral of his well-known Burmese grandfather.
Army Spec. Wai Pyoe Lwin, a naturalized American and member of the Army National Guard's 1st Battalion, 69th Infantry Regiment, died with another soldier, Pakistani-American Azhar Ali, on March 2 when an improvised bomb tore apart their Humvee near Baghdad International Airport, the Pentagon said
"Many sons have died in wars," his father, New York businessman Thein Zaw Lwin, said in an interview.
"I feel as any parent feels after losing a son in a war. Many wars have taken many sons away, and I don't want to say anything about wars. I just want to say that I take pride in the fact that my son, as a...
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You will always be an american hero.