8 Responses to “Happy Fourth of July”

1. #1 |  chsw |  July 4th, 2010 at 12:15 pm

   Today is the 50th anniversary of my parents’ citizenship ceremony. God bless this country. And God bless you for posting the video.

2. #2 |  Mattocracy |  July 4th, 2010 at 2:20 pm

   Notice that all of these people are well educated. It’s hard to get citizenship when you’re a laborer.

3. #3 |  JS |  July 4th, 2010 at 2:37 pm

   It’s actually getting harder to get rid of your US citizenship than to attain it in the first place.

4. #4 |  EH |  July 4th, 2010 at 3:09 pm

   “Now, which way to the welfare office?”

5. #5 |  Stick |  July 5th, 2010 at 1:42 am

   Friend of mine moved to the US many years ago. He was in Bonny Raits’ band for a long time and last I heard he was Billy Joels’ bass player. He was let in because of his exceptional musical talent.

6. #6 |  Michael Chaney |  July 5th, 2010 at 3:30 am

   I had the privilege of attending my wife’s naturalization ceremony a few years ago, and it was really nice. They had a guy playing bagpipes, a string quartet (maybe triplet), and a judge who presided over the whole thing and really enjoyed the hell out of this part of his job. It was people from all over the world, about 200 of them, and they read each name and country of origin aloud at the end. The judge then stood in the hallway and took pictures with anyone who wanted them, and there were a lot.

   But, yeah, as Mattocracy laments, not a whole lot of Mexican laborers in the bunch, even though there are more of them in town.

7. #7 |  RWW |  July 5th, 2010 at 11:14 am

   In a way, one of the most patriotic things a person could do in America today is break the immigration laws, either by being an illegal immigrant or hiring one.

8. #8 |  Paul |  July 7th, 2010 at 12:18 am

   This was a beautiful video

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