‘This is going to change my life’ 42 become U.S. citizens at ceremony in park

Published 12:00 am Saturday, September 18, 2010

Blanca Berion, left, from Honduras and now living in Hattiesburg, and Jayaben Patel, from India and now living in Lucedale, say the Pledge of Allegiance for the first time as U.S. citizens during Friday’s ceremony at the USS Cairo inside the Vicksburg National Military Park.

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