United
States Naturalization Ceremony
San Jacinto
Monument
Houston/La Porte, Texas
September 25, 2003
Colonels John Baker,
David Pomeroy, Kris Minefee & Jim Peddy are ready to go!
(Photos courtesy of John Baker, who always has a camera with him)
Mr. Edwin Carl Erwin,
center, presiding judge oversees the Presentation
The Colors are presented
35 applications from
17 countries obtain U. S. citizenship.
Most of us were born to citizenship, they earned theirs.
San Jacinto Museum
of History George Donnelly welcomed the new citizens to the San
Jacinto Battleground where Texas won her Independence from Mexico
in 1836. He stressed that this battlefield represents the universal
striving of all people to be free and independent. The new citizens
today were proof that the desire continues.
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Guard page or Texas Army home page
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