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BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Mabinu Putu is present officially an American national of the United States of America.
She joined conscionable a fistful of others astatine a naturalization ceremonial astatine Fort McHenry Saturday.
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“I felt similar a marque caller person. It was beauteous retired there,” she said.
Her hubby went done the process conscionable a fewer years ago, aft leaving Liberia successful the midst of a civilian warfare immoderate 20 years earlier.
“To yet onshore astatine that moment, it was that burst of emotion,” Matthew Putu said.
Also happening Saturday was a U.S. Army enlistment ceremony, fitting arsenic this is simply a portion of the Defenders Day celebration. Defenders Day is the oldest vacation successful Baltimore that celebrates those who successfully defended Fort McHenry from a British onslaught successful 1814.
“They started celebrating it connected the 12th of September. So for a small while, it was called the 12th of September, but the men who were celebrated for generations afterward were called the Old Defenders of Baltimore,” said Shannon McLucas, a National Park Ranger.
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It’s the conflict that inspired Francis Scott Key to constitute what would go our nationalist anthem.
“We’re celebrating what Francis Scott Key called the inspirers of the song,” McLucas said.
A opus that surely means a batch to immoderate of our newest citizens.
“Just to perceive the woman singing the nationalist anthem, it blew my mind,” Mabinu Putu said.
“God bless America. Happy to beryllium here,” Matthew Putu said arsenic helium waved a tiny flag.
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One-third of the men who fought to support Baltimore successful 1814, were caller immigrants.
Sean Streicher
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