http://www.expertclick.com/NewsReleaseWire/default.cfm?Action=ReleaseDetail&ID=8459WASHINGTON—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 Burmese, gave up his life in war."
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