Jose Rodrigues came to the United States from Angola as a teenager and joined the Marines out of high school.
He served in Iraq twice, and he's one of 26,000 service members whose citizenship has been expedited because of his military service.
He's in trade school now, just outside of Boston, and will soon graduate with a certificate in heating and air-conditioning repair.
He says that taking the oath of citizenship didn't make him feel more American -- he's considered himself an American for a long time.
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