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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 .