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Honoring the life of Col. Moua Sue and proclaiming Monday, February 5, 2024, as Col. Moua Sue Day in the City of Saint Paul.
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WHEREAS, Colonel Moua Sue is the oldest son of Col. Cher Pao Moua and Chi Xiong, born on October 10, 1939, in Ban Nam, Xiengkhouang, Laos; and
WHEREAS, Col. Moua Sue attended primary and secondary school in Lat Bouak, an area north of his hometown and west of the Plain of Jars, which at the time was a Communist Lao command center; and
WHEREAS, Col. Moua Sue graduated from Lat Bouak Secondary School in 1959 and continued his education at Lat Huang College, where he received an associate degree in radio broadcasting in 1961 and began working at the Lao National Radio Station as a bilingual Hmong and Lao radio broadcaster; and
WHEREAS, Col. Moua Sue was recruited by the United States Central Intelligence Agency shortly after beginning his broadcast career and underwent formal intensive military education and training in Thailand before he was sworn as an army officer of the 403rd Battalion of the Lao Royal Army in Boualouang, Luang Prabang, Laos; and
WHEREAS, General Vang Pao assigned Col. Moua Sue to First Military Duty at the Lao Ta military post in Luang Prabang as an army captain in 1963, where he was promoted to the rank of Major after two years and relocated to a military training base to command new, brave recruits of Hmong and Lao soldiers to defend the democracy and freedom of Laos from 1965 to 1970; and
WHEREAS, Col. Moua Sue furthered his military knowledge, tactics, and strategies by continuing his military combat experience and education at the Administrative Military School in Long Tieng, Xaisomboun, Laos and the General Military Institute in Vientiane, Vientiane, Laos and was promoted upon completion to Lieutenant Colonel in 1970; and
WHEREAS, Col. Moua Sue returned to Boualouang after his promotion and became the commander of a newly formed military unit known as the GM-24 Strike Force Regiment, operatin...
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