Coming to America: Refugee becomes Airman

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Nineteen years and about 6, 000 miles ago, a 9-yr old girl and her mother, speaking only French and broken English, fled a small village in Liberia, in the midst of a tumultuous civil war and trekked to the United States. With no documents, not even a birth certificate, the two left behind a life of sleeping in mud huts and getting their water from rivers in pursuit of something better, in a place they considered closer to heaven…America.

Coming to America: Refugee becomes Airman

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Photo by: Senior Airman Breanna Carter | VIRIN: 190711-F-EP384-1030.JPG

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