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Wounded, maimed for our freedom

By LO TERN CHERN
Sacrifice: Lee showing his prosthesis at the Esplanade Cenotaph in George Town. He lost his leg to a communist rebel mine in Kedah in 1979. — CHAN BOON KAI/The Star

GEORGE TOWN: His mission was to lay an ambush on the communists in the Ulu Sungai Seraya waterfall area in Gubir, Kedah.

As the second lieutenant commanding a fully armed platoon, Mejar (R) Lee Hock Sun led the battle against the communists in operation codenamed Ops Gubir 11.

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