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- So I was born in July of 2000, which

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means I have no recollection of the

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attack, right? I'm not gonna remember it.

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It wasn't until I started going

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to school, especially in high school

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and all that, kind of found out about

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the attack and the implications it had

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West but worldwide . So I'm the son of

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immigrants, you know, they came to

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this country in 1999. Hearing

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their account of the attacks, you know,

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they've been in the country two years

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at that point and they've already found

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a sense of home and kindredship with

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the people here. They come to this

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country, which offered them an

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opportunity to be able to get out of

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the situation they were in, and for it

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to be attacked in such a, you know,

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devastating way, it definitely left an

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impact on them. Even with the fact

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that they had only been here two years.

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I'd say for me, part of it was just

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wanting to serve the country . That

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my parents again came here from nothing.

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And the fact that this country was able

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to elevate them to the status they have

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now and granted me a comfortable

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childhood is nothing short of

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spectacular. So I wanted to give back

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to the country that gave so much to me.