'Green-card Marine' prepares for 3rd deployment

leannamarie · Mar 20, 2008

'Green-card Marine' prepares for 3rd deployment

TWENTY-NINE PALMS, California (CNN) -- U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Mario Ramos-Villalta flashes a broad smile from beneath his camouflage cap as he talks about the country he loves and why he became a Marine.
He's fought twice in Iraq and survived an attack on his Humvee in October 2005. Now, he's preparing for deployment to Afghanistan.
Yet he's not even an American. He's a citizen of El Salvador serving in the U.S. military.
"A lot of the papers I get [say], 'You're a great American,'" the 22-year-old Purple Heart recipient says. "I am not an American citizen yet, but I still fight for it."http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/03/19/greencard.marine/index.html?iref=mpstoryview
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bullhaulerswife · Mar 20, 2008

Wow, thats pretty cool!!! Good for him!

Harley · Mar 22, 2008

He may not be a legal citizen of the U.S. but if he's willing to fight for our country, then many salutes to him.

Our military could be 12-20 million more strong if we forced all the illegals into the military.

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