150 people from 50 countries become US citizens at Mount Vernon on Americas 250th birthday
MOUNT VERNON, Va. (AP) — The people who were about to become United States citizens sat in folding chairs on George Washington's lawn at Mount Vernon on Saturday, 250 years after the Declaration of Independence. The sun beat down and the well-dressed crowd was a flutter of paddle fans stamped with American flags. Their families clung to the shade of the trees on either side, where one woman had two American flags stuck through her ponytail. “Well, good morning, everybody,” said Anne Neal...
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