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150 people from 50 countries become US citizens at Mount Vernon on America’s 250th birthday
The ceremony marked America’s 250th birthday and included applicants from 50 countries who completed the naturalization process.
- On Saturday, July Fourth, 150 people from 50 countries gathered at George Washington's Mount Vernon estate in Virginia to become United States citizens, marking the nation's 250th anniversary.
- The ceremony occurred 250 years after the Declaration of Independence, with attendees sitting on Washington's lawn near a tulip poplar tree planted at the first president's direction.
- United States Marine Sgt. Diakaria Sangare, originally from Guinea, attended in his pressed Dress Blue uniform with medals, having completed the long citizenship process of tests and interviews.
- After a speech about Washington, the crowd recited the Oath of Allegiance and sang the national anthem, celebrating their transition to United States citizens.
- Historian Douglas Bradburn noted that the new citizens' stories now merge with American history, as the re-enactor portraying Washington told them, "Today the name of 'American' belongs to you.
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150 people from 50 countries became U.S. citizens at a naturalization ceremony in Mount Vernon, Virginia, on July 4. Among the new citizens are Salvadorans, Hondurans and a Navy sergeant from Guinea.
Mount Vernon hosts citizenship ceremony on America’s 250th birthday
As celebrations began for America’s 250th birthday on Saturday, 150 people from 50 countries gathered at George Washington’s Mount Vernon estate in Virginia to become US citizens. CNN’s Donie O’Sullivan spoke with the new American citizens about taking the oath on the historic day.
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150 people from 50 countries become US citizens at Mount Vernon on America’s 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
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