The El Paso Times has an article about a pair of Iraqi brothers that served as interpreters for US Army units in Iraq who received special visas to emigrate to America. It’s a good thing, too: Many of these folks have risked their lives to help coalition forces provide security and freedom to the war-torn nation. They are all targets of the insurgency, and many have been brutally murdered.
Turns out that these two ‘terps are going back. As soldiers in the US Army:
Almshab, who is to report to Fort Jackson, S.C., June 17 for basic training and is expected to enter the Army at the rank of specialist, will follow a fast track to citizenship.
But he said he doesn’t care how long it takes.
“It doesn’t matter because I’m an American now,” he said.
Wow.
Honor. Loyalty. Duty.
These two have more of these qualities in a single hair than I will know in a lifetime.
Maybe PBS ought to do a documentary on them, too.
That is one young man who really gets the point of it all, in a matter of speaking. Truly one in a million.
~LTJG (sel) Tim
Good Men, they are. Good Men. Good Americans.
Subsunk
We NEED more legal immigrants like these two fine gentlemen, and proven heroes willing to risk their lives defending (or spreading) freedom.
I salute their past and future contributions and welcome them to full citizenship.
Huzzah!
Screw guest worker programs.
May God continue to bless us with patriotic immigrants like these. My fellow Americans.
The fact that there are Iraqis like that are the reason I don’t mind coming over here, and proof that, yes, they are capable of, and willing to, assume responsibility for the security of their country. There are many just like those two who stayed home and are serving alongside us in the Iraqi Army and the Iraqi Police right now. They (mostly) have surpassed “not too bad” and are up to “good and getting better”.
And congrats, LTJG Tim. Was that awful quick or is time really going by that fast? I must be be getting old.
Ahh, the great melting pot claims more for the common good. It is amazing that after all we have done there, taken through the straw’s eye view of the Poly-Left in this country that anyone from them parts would not only come here but join up to fight. Especially given the general hatred the left has for the uniformed services save the tip-staff of their favorite Press Club digs. The real shame is that there are those here, who have refused assimilation into our homogenous culture, such as it is, and actually ‘preach’ reverse racism. Giving in to that melting pot does not mean giving up your cultural identity and doing well on your own, we have plenty of examples of success most of whom are excoriated by them that ‘preach’ the hate. However, resisting what is inevitable simple keeps them in the past and more importantly, at the lower end of our social and economic scale. The blame starts with them that have the most to gain in keeping their flock in the past. Not enough from the true pied pipers: http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hNEyhBfCHvuJwLEwaqJxthaLvRRAD90D49H00
But they hate us so much…*snark*
Welcome to America and thank you for your courage and honor!
Ernie: May 26th it’s official…and yes to both counts.
Welcome aboard, to the both of em.