{"id":21476,"date":"2010-12-12T13:08:34","date_gmt":"2010-12-12T17:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=21476"},"modified":"2010-12-12T13:08:34","modified_gmt":"2010-12-12T17:08:34","slug":"20-soldiers-become-citizens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=21476","title":{"rendered":"20 soldiers become citizens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pe.com\/localnews\/immigration\/stories\/PE_News_Local_D_citizen10.1.2f9b99a.html\">Press-Enterprise<\/a> reports that 20 legal immigrants in uniform became citizens at Fort Irwin, CA;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Forcado and nearly half of the others are veterans of the Iraq war. She worked in supply there and helped search females when soldiers went into Iraqis&#8217; houses. She has served in the Army five years, expects to be deployed again in the future and wants to make the military a career.<\/p>\n<p>College was never really an option for her, she said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I decided to make the best of it and join the Army to support my country.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sgt. 1st Class Dorothy Jarman, 37, a veteran of two Iraq deployments providing security for truck convoys, took the oath as a citizen to the surprise of some of the comrades she invited to the ceremony. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Unlike many immigrants who think they are owed citizenship, and whom Harry Reid is more than happy to help, these folks have earned their right to be called citizens and I welcome them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Press-Enterprise reports that 20 legal immigrants in uniform became citizens at Fort Irwin, CA; Forcado &hellip; <a title=\"20 soldiers become citizens\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=21476\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">20 soldiers become citizens<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}