Was It Worth It, I Wonder? I Dont Think So

Source: Chicago Tribune
CHICAGO - Pfc. Dawid Pietrek became a U.S. citizen on the day he was laid to rest.
The 24-year-old Marine, who immigrated from Poland, became the seventh immigrant from Illinois and the 116th nationwide to receive U.S. citizenship posthumously while serving in the armed forces.
"There's something very American about Immigration and about these young people who come and serve in the armed forces," said Jonathan Scharfen, a director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and retired Marine.
Pietrek, of Bensenville, was killed June 14 when his Humvee hit a roadside bomb in Afghanistan. He was buried Tuesday. "He told me several times that everything he's doing over there (in Afghanistan), it's his job, and he was trying to do it in the best way," said his mother Dorota Pietrek, who flew from Poland for the funeral. "He was proud of what he was doing, and I was proud too."
Pietrek and the six other immigrants from Illinois have received citizenship since 2001 when wars began in Iraq and Afghanistan.
They were from the Philippines, Mexico, India, Lithuania and Poland.
Among them was Sgt. Uday Singh, 21, who immigrated from India.
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