I received an email once when I was traveling in Africa from a Ghanaian friend who was scheduled to be sworn in as a citizen during a time when I absolutely could not be there to cheer for him and his cohort. As soon as I returned to the office, he was my first visitor and he had another request: could I help him register to vote? "I am …
I received an email once when I was traveling in Africa from a Ghanaian friend who was scheduled to be sworn in as a citizen during a time when I absolutely could not be there to cheer for him and his cohort. As soon as I returned to the office, he was my first visitor and he had another request: could I help him register to vote? "I am an American now, and voting is my right, my privilege, and my duty." So off we went to the election registrar.
Not long after, a quite feisty English friend was sworn in and I asked her who won the Revolutionary War. Who kicked some British butt? Who ran off the Redcoats? Her crooked grin reply was, "We did!"
Often, the new ones understand it better than those of us whose ancestors were here at the Founding.
I received an email once when I was traveling in Africa from a Ghanaian friend who was scheduled to be sworn in as a citizen during a time when I absolutely could not be there to cheer for him and his cohort. As soon as I returned to the office, he was my first visitor and he had another request: could I help him register to vote? "I am an American now, and voting is my right, my privilege, and my duty." So off we went to the election registrar.
Not long after, a quite feisty English friend was sworn in and I asked her who won the Revolutionary War. Who kicked some British butt? Who ran off the Redcoats? Her crooked grin reply was, "We did!"
Often, the new ones understand it better than those of us whose ancestors were here at the Founding.