Samuel Chi, Veteran Journalist and American Success Story, Passes Away at 48
Breitbart News
by ALEXANDER MARLOW10 Sep 20171,232
Samuel Scott Chi, a Breitbart News Senior Editor, passed away in the early morning of September 9, after battling pancreatic cancer for more than two years.
“Although Sam was only part of the Breitbart family for a short time, he enriched all our lives and his contributions were extraordinary,” Breitbart President and CEO Larry Solov said. “He will be greatly missed.”
If there is a personality type that is the greatest asset to the Breitbart virtual newsroom, it is that of the “Happy Warrior.” Andrew Breitbart certainly fit that description, as do countless others working for Breitbart News today.
Not only was Sam Chi a quintessential happy warrior in the spirit of our founder, he was also a skilled editor and a decent man.
Sam is remembered by colleagues and loved ones as having an enormous heart, a quick wit, and a terrific work ethic.
But perhaps Sam’s most notable feature was his loyalty. “If you were Sam’s friend, you were always going to be his friend,” Jill told Breitbart News in an interview shortly before his death.
He was the “smartest person I’ve ever met,” Jill said, noting that he had an encyclopedic memory of facts and figures.
Sam moved to the United States from Taipei, Taiwan when he was 14 years old, speaking only a little English but with high hopes. Even though Taiwan is highly westernized, Sam said that all of the children he knew wanted to go to the United States. They believed that, in America, when you turn on the tap, milk comes out instead of water. Sam was deeply disappointed to learn that wasn’t the case, but other than that, the USA was everything he had hoped for.
In my last phone conversation with Sam, he expressed regret that he could not continue to work at Breitbart News. In a touching exchange I had with Sam just a few weeks before he passed, we strategized at length on how to keep his voice as a part of the site for as long as possible.
As his body began to fail him, not once did I see Sam pity himself, nor did I see him lose sight of what’s important: family, hard work, and freedom.
He was an accomplished journalist and a warrior for American values.
It’s heartbreaking that Breitbart News and those who love Sam Chi have lost a good man in his prime.
May he rest in peace.
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