Metro approves charity for children of fallen workers

For a month after his brother was struck by a Red Line train while making repairs at the Dupont Circle station, Jong Pil Lee wondered how to help his three young nieces who would live the rest of their lives without their father.

Lee — whose brother Jong Won Lee, 49, of Springfield, Va., died May 14 — then sat down to write a letter urging Metro officials to create a scholarship fund for the children. Lee would also be joined in his mission by Betty Waldron, whose husband, Mike Waldron, 47, was hit by a train in October and later died.