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My name is Khan Lamantia . I'm from 

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Caracas Venezuela . At the age of 19 , 

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I moved to the United States and around 

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at the age of 24 I joined the Marine 

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Corps . It was December 2008 when I 

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joined the Marine Corps . When I moved 

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to the US I moved by myself , I left my 

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parents and my brothers and sisters 

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back home . So at the age of 19 uh , 

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this is the first time I was with the 

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family joined the Marine Corps where we 

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constantly traveling to different 

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places , being deployed for one year , 

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being different training in different 

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locations and not be able to 

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communicate with my family I think was 

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was one of the biggest challenges for 

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me . Hispanic heritage is very special 

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to me because it represents all the 

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hard work that we as Hispanic Latinos 

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have done in the uniform and out of the 

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uniform .