Correcting Some Bogus West Point Mythology
Better late than never? Maybe.
In 1981, Li Zuhrun, currently a university professor but at that time a reporter for Chinese news agency Xinhua, was duped by an April Fool’s dispatch. According to a bogus item disseminated by UPI, cadets at West Point looked up mightily to Chinese folk hero Lei Feng, revering a hung portrait and the Feng saying, “Human life is limited, but serving the people is limitless.”
All these years later, Zuhrun took to Chinese micro-blogging site Sina Weibo to fully atone for his errant pick-up.
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