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Walt Gaya’s Priorities
Michael Yon put a great piece up on Monday about Walt Gaya, who is in the US Army but is not yet a citizen. He was wounded in battle.
Many American soldiers are not actually citizens of the United States, but the “foreigners” in the US Army I got to know in Mosul didn’t fight with any less commitment than those born in the US.
Shortly after the attack, when Walt was in the hospital in Mosul, Robert Prosser, the Command Sergeant Major of the “Deuce Four” battalion, came to check on his men. He found Walt more concerned about missing his citizenship ceremony than losing his eye. Walt had post-war plans to become a photo-journalist. Shortly after the blast, he’d written off that damaged eye, and his camera had been battered; but what mattered to Walt was his citizenship. When they flew Walt back to America he did miss the ceremony in Baghdad.
The power of the press has come to his aide, and now Yon reports:
When I arrived at Fort Lewis, I found Walt standing in his commander’s office. They were a pair: the commander still on crutches recovering from a few gunshot wounds–but expected to make a full recovery–and Walt with his semi-closed eye, planning for a career in photo-journalism. I asked about Walt’s citizenship, and they assured me that the Army had taken control of the situation and there would be no further problems or delays.
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