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Willie Cheek 1945 - 2010

Willie Cheek of Ranger, Lincoln County, WV was born on May 18, 1945, and died at age 65 years old on September 24, 2010.
Willie Cheek
Ranger, Lincoln County, WV 25557
May 18, 1945
September 24, 2010
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  • 05/18
    1945

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    May 18, 1945
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  • 09/24
    2010

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    September 24, 2010
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    Willie Cheek lived 7 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 65.
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In 1945, in the year that Willie Cheek was born, on June 22nd, the Battle of Okinawa ended. A joint Army and Marine campaign, supported by the Navy, the Battle of Okinawa went on for 82 days. The last Japanese resistance on Okinawa was defeated. 4,907 Navy, 4,675 Army, and 2,938 Marine Corps personnel were killed in the battle on the US side. It is estimated that 110,071 on the Japanese side were killed - the estimate includes Okinawan citizens who were pressed into service and includes children. With the win of Okinawa, the United States gained an important base of operations in the Pacific.
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In 1964, at the age of 19 years old, Willie was alive when in June, three young civil rights workers - Andrew Goodman and Mickey Schwerner from New York City, and James Chaney from Meridian, Mississippi - were kidnapped and murdered in Mississippi. Working with "Freedom Summer", they were registering African-Americans to vote in the Southern states. Their bodies were found two months later. Although it was discovered that the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, the Neshoba County Sheriff's Office and the Philadelphia, Mississippi Police Department were involved, only 7 men were convicted and served less than six years.
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