Mr. Lee Ge
a.k.a. Wa Xiong Lee
Marching Band in Long Cheng
SGU Veteran
Brooklyn Park, MN
File No.: 40/50
July 2024

Lee Ge was born in 1949 in Ban Huong, Laos. He began schooling at age eight. He was studious and quickly excelled in his education. In the 1960s, Xieng Khouang Province was short of teachers. General Vang Pao requested that top students from the province be recruited as educators, and in 1965, Ge was selected and sent to Long Cheng. He also had interest in becoming a bomber pilot. In 1969, he applied to the pilot program. His brother Lee Tou rejected his idea and he declined to pursue this career. Ge then joined the Long Cheng military marching band and played the wind instrument as a SGU soldier. In the waning years of the war, he became a radio announcer at the Long Cheng radio station. One day, a group of North Vietnamese Army soldiers penetrated into the Long Cheng base. They fired shots toward the station and struck Ge in the stomach. He was sent to the Na Su hospital for surgery and survived. After the NVA and Pathet Lao forces seized Long Cheng in 1975, he fled to the jungle to join the resistance force to fight back their country. This lasted until 1979 when they fled to Thailand. Ge stayed in Thailand to assist Hmong refugees escaping  Laos. In 1993, he immigrated to the US to start a new life. ∆

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