82 immigrants earned U.S. citizenship Friday

People from 35 countries became citizens last week. Congratulations to them.  - - Donna Poisl

By WILLIAM KLUSENER, The Morning Sun

FORT SCOTT —  Friday was a momentous day for 82 new United States citizens. With the Honorable David J. Waxse of the U.S. District Court of Kansas presiding, the immigrants, who came from 35 different countries, took their oath of citizenship during a naturalization ceremony at the Fort Scott National Historic Site. Scores of their friends and family members were on hand to witness the ceremony, and the Fort Scott High School band, orchestra, choir and select ensemble performed patriotic music.

Waxse, whose wife’s family originally were Volga Germans and whose father came from Russian-occupied Germany, told the group they were following in a path that countless immigrants before them had trod. Even the Americans who lived here before the New World was discovered by Europeans, he told them, came from Asia via the Bering Strait.
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