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03-24-11, 10:43 PM #1
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WWII vet discovers he’s not a U.S. citizen
WWII vet discovers he’s not a U.S. citizen - Yahoo! NewsNinety-five-year-old Leeland Davidson discovered recently that he's not considered a U.S. citizen, despite living nearly 100 years in the country and serving in the U.S. Navy during WWII.
Davidson, from Centralia, Washington, told KOMO News that he discovered he wasn't a U.S. citizen when he was turned down for an enhanced driver's license he needed for a trip to Canada to visit relatives.
"We always figured because he was born to U.S. parents he's automatically a U.S. citizen," said Davidson's daughter, Rose Schoolcraft.
Davidson was born in British Columbia in 1916, but his parents didn't register the birth with the U.S. government to ensure they knew he was a citizen. He checked up on his citizenship before joining the Navy and was told by an inspector at the U.S. Department of Labor Immigration and Naturalization Service he had nothing to worry about. Now he worries that he won't be able to prove his citizenship, because his parents were born in Iowa before local governments started keeping records of birth certificates in 1880.
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03-24-11, 10:49 PM #2
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Originally Posted by Buttercup
Technicality be damned. He was effective the day he enlisted.
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03-24-11, 11:01 PM #3
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A lot of people his age probably don't know if they're really US citizens or not.
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03-24-11, 11:27 PM #4
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Originally Posted by Pudge
Agreed. He's more an American citizen than half the people that were born here.SI VIS PACEM PARA BELLUM-Ex-Sheriff Martin Howe to Will Kane in "High Noon"
"It's a great life. You risk your skin catching killers and the juries turn them loose so they can come back and shoot at you again. If your honest , your poor your whole life. And , In the end , you wind up dying all alone on some dirty street. For what? For nothing. For a tin star."
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03-24-11, 11:35 PM #5
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Very few. Originally Posted by Jenna
I'm your huckleberry...
Quemadmoeum gladis nemeinum occidit, occidentus telum est!
You can be the weapon, and the gun in your hand is a tool - or the gun is a weapon and you are the tool.
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but every girl I found was either one way or the other...
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03-24-11, 11:55 PM #6
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I think if we can put a Kenyan in the White House a WWII Veteran ought to be given the papers he needs.
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03-25-11, 05:02 PM #7
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His service should be enough for him to get his citizenship
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03-27-11, 04:00 AM #8
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His citizenship should be automatic, now. Just show him where to sign.
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03-27-11, 07:52 AM #9
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