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approximately 40,000 immigrants are

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fighting right now to protect our

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country And this weekend many of these

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soldiers were granted the honor of

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becoming United States citizens . Two

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of those soldiers join us from balad

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Iraq this morning we're pleased to have

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with a specialist Wendy , Godino Denny .

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She's originally from Mexico and with

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her as well is specialist francoise

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Lennon who was originally from North

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Africa . Great to have you with us this

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morning . Thank you . Good . I'm very

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good thank you . As I understand that

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when you were one of the youngest to

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take part in this naturalization

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ceremony explain how you came to join

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the army and then how you went on that

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path to eventually become a citizen . I

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join everyone . I was 17 .

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I was a junior in high school but I

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wanted to join . I mean something I

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just , I want to be a part of history .

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There's no better way than in the army

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and Wendy . What does your family say

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when they , when they knew you were

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going to become a citizen this week .

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They're really excited . I'm actually

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last one in my family to become a

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citizen so they're really excited for

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me certainly is an exciting

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time . You also , by the way you're

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married . I think there's a picture of

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you and your husband James . You look

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gorgeous by the way , francois , let me

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ask you , you're in your mid twenties

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right now . Originally from North

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Africa . When and why did you decide to

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join the U . S . Army ? I

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joined the army in a 2000 and four

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since I believe

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and like a

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language french And I'm very I

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mean excited about forget

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this job and to build my

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skills and get more experience

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in the military job especially and

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uh to serve this nation . I mean this

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nation , what is this ? A part of

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my heart ? You certainly are

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a boon to the army . You're an

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interpreter . You speak english french

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as well as Arabic . How has become

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becoming a United States citizen ?

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Change your life ? How

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come ? I mean to become a citizen ,

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I have been very like make me

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very very happy and that's

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open a lot of laws for me , a lot of

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opportunities . And uh I

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mean uh that's that's that's the reason

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we served this nation . I mean we serve

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and they can I mean that's that's our

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subject . Well you certainly are making

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your new country proud . All of us are

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proud of you as we move toward the 4th

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of July weekend . So congratulations to

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both of you . Stay safe and please come

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back soon . Uh specialist Wendy Godino

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Denny as well as special strength

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swollen and thanks a lot