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    Parkland student gets posthumous West Point admission


    © Provided by NBCU News Group, a division of NBCUniversal Media LLC Image: Peter WangPeter Wang

    In life, he dreamed of becoming soldier. In death, he was honored with an invitation to join their ranks.

    Fifteen-year-old Peter Wang, who was killed while trying to help classmates escape from a gunman at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, was posthumously accepted to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point on Tuesday "for his heroic actions on Feb. 14, 2018" and then buried in his Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps (JROTC) uniform.

    Wang, the U.S. Military Academy said in a statement, "had a lifetime goal to attend USMA."

    Related: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...ictims-n848706

    "It was an appropriate way for USMA to honor this brave young man," it read. "West Point has given posthumous offers of admission in very rare instances for those candidates or potential candidate's (sic) whose actions exemplified the tenets of Duty, Honor and Country."

    Wang would have been in the Class of 2025, a West Point spokesman said.

    The letter was hand-delivered to Wang's parents by a uniformed Army officer at the funeral home in Coral Springs, Florida where a gut-wrenching funeral was held as grieving relatives wept beside the slain teenager's open casket.

    When the shooting started at the high school in Parkland, the Brooklyn, N.Y.-born cadet yanked open a door that allowed dozens of classmates, teachers and staffers to escape, officials said. But as he stood at his post in his JROTC uniform and held the door open, Wang was shot and killed — one of the 17 students and staffers who died in the school that day.

    "For as long as we remember him, he is a hero," classmate Jared Burns told NBC Miami.

    "He was like a brother to me and possibly one of the kindest people I ever met," longtime friend Xi Chen added.


    © Provided by NBCU News Group, a division of NBCUniversal Media LLC Image: Peter Wang's mother cries following her son's funeralPeter Wang's mother, Hui, cries as she is helped into a waiting car with her family after the memorial service for her son...

    Gov. Rick Scott has directed the Florida National Guard to honor Wang, who was a freshman, and two other JROTC members who were killed — Alaina Petty, 14, and Martin Duque, 14.

    Also, a petition calling on Congress to give Wang a full military funeral had collected nearly 70,000 signatures as of Tuesday afternoon, some 30,000 short of the 100,000 needed to get a response from the White House.

    "Wang died a hero, and deserves to be treated as such, and deserves a full honors military burial," the petition states.

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/pa...cid=spartandhp

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    Army Awards Heroism Medal To 3 Junior ROTC Cadets Killed In Florida Shooting

    Ryan Grenoble, HuffPost, February 20, 2018

    Three Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps cadets killed during last week’s mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida have been awarded the Medal of Heroism by the U.S. Army.

    Family members of the cadets, Alaina Petty, Martin Duque and Peter Wang, will receive the medals, which are awarded only to cadets whose achievements “involved the acceptance of danger and extraordinary responsibilities, exemplifying praiseworthy courage and fortitude.” At least one of the cadets was gunned down while protecting fellow students.


    sunrisepost365
    @sunrisepost365
    It is with broken hearts that Sunrise Post 365 & Stoneman Douglas JROTC shares the loss of our soaring eagles! We honor them, and will miss their courage, tenacity, and their smiles! Cadet Peter Wang, Cadet Martin Duque, and Cadet Alaina Petty. May they always soar high!

    11:06 PM - Feb 17, 2018
    25.5K - 9,684 people are talking about this


    Eyewitnesses say Peter, a 15-year-old freshman, spent his last moments holding a door open at the school to help others evacuate. He was wearing his gray Junior ROTC shirt at the time and will be buried in his full uniform ― along with his Medal of Heroism ― on Tuesday.

    An online petition urging that Peter be buried with full military honors had more than 62,000 signatures Tuesday afternoon. Also Tuesday, he was posthumously admitted to West Point, the prestigious U.S. military academy he dreamed of attending.

    “It was an appropriate way for USMA to honor this brave young man,” West Point said in a statement. “West Point has given posthumous offers of admissions in very rare instances for those candidates or potential candidates whose actions exemplified the tenets of Duty, Honor and Country.”

    Members of the Florida National Guard will attend each cadet’s funeral.


    An American flag is carried into the funeral for Alaina Petty on February 19, 2018 in Coral Springs, Florida.

    A U.S. Army spokesman told the Daily Beast the family of Alaina Petty, 14, was presented her medal at her memorial service on Monday. More than 1,500 people attended the service.

    Alaina’s oldest brother Ian said his sister “will be missed terribly,” and called on others to keep her legacy alive “through small acts of kindness.”

    The family of Martin Duque, 14, will receive his medal on Saturday. His family members remembered Martin to the Miami Herald as “sweet, affectionate and loved by his entire family.”

    This article originally appeared on HuffPost.

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