![Asian-American Lee Wong, chairman of the Westchester Residents Council, Ohio, USA, takes off his shirt during a meeting to show the wounds he suffered while serving in the U.S. military. [트위터]](https://i0.wp.com/pds.joins.com/news/component/htmlphoto_mmdata/202103/28/ef213bed-305d-4571-bd74-dde093a4a4f5.jpg?w=560&ssl=1)
Asian-American Lee Wong, chairman of the Westchester Residents Council, Ohio, USA, takes off his shirt during a meeting to show the wounds he suffered while serving in the U.S. military. [트위터]
On the 23rd (local time), the President of the Residents’ Council in West Chester, Ohio, USA. Chairman Lee Wong, 69, suddenly unbuttoned his shirt and showed a long black wound on his chest. It was said to be the wound he suffered while serving in the US Army for 20 years.
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He said he had heard stories from people who didn’t know much about him, saying, “You don’t look like an American. You don’t look like a patriot.”
“Is this enough to be called a patriot,” he said openly, saying that the wounds in his heart were evidence. He urged to stop discrimination and hate crimes against Asians.
According to NBC, Wong came to the United States from Borneo at the age of 18. And it is said that he applied to the U.S. Army because of racism. While in Chicago in the 1970s to study, he was assaulted by a white man who mistaken him for Japanese. Although he was unilaterally beaten, the perpetrator was released without special punishment. Seeing this, he said that he decided to enlist with the idea that he would not be discriminated against anymore.
Wong is a Republican. During the elections for the residents’ council, he wore a hat to make America Greater, the symbol of former President Donald Trump.
Initially, his speech was not scheduled at the conference hall that day. He told the Cincinnati Inquirer that he thought it was time to speak up when he saw the murder of six Asian women in Atlanta on the 16th.
Lee Wong, President of the Residents’ Council of West Chester, Ohio, USA.
As such information was announced late, the Washington Post, Fox News, and NBC delivered related news nationwide on the 27th. More than 3 million people watched the video on social media, and received more than 160,000 likes. The video commented, “Wong is much more patriot than Trump supporters,” and “The society where soldiers had to show their wounds is rotten.”
Washington = Correspondent Pilkyu Kim [email protected]
