Friendsgiving: Philadelphia, PA
Apr 05, 2024
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So, next they go to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to visit SSGT (Retired) Paul Purdue. Purdue, you may remember, was originally from Wisconsin; he joined the unit at “Mobe Station” in Fort McCoy. But he was wounded in the 2004 2nd Battle of Fallujah, which was BOHICA Blue’s first-year Anniversary Special. Purdue was wounded by a suicide bomber and medically evacuated to Germany, where doctors had to cut off his leg. It was the same battle in which Captain Steve Wronick was killed, and Major Butter, the Military Working Dog, was knocked unconscious and had a near-death experience.
Since coming back to the United States, Paul Purdue was rehabilitated and now has an artificial leg. He also has a job with the US Department of Homeland Security, the “Citizenship and Immigration Services” department that grants citizenship to legal immigrants to the United States– it is what used to be called “INS” or “Immigration & Naturalization Services”. They changed the name when it got folded into the Department of Homeland Security. Federal civilian service has a lot of military veterans, and especially wounded veterans who still want to serve their country in some capacity but are no longer able to serve in uniform.
As for immigration petitions, the “Form I-130” is real, and that is how you apply for any foreign relative, be it a spouse, parent, or sibling. In the case of the Egyptian Pharaohs, there was a tradition of marrying brother & sister. The Pharaoh and his family were considered living gods, and you can’t have a god marry a regular, mortal person– so that kind of narrows one’s options. Out of curiosity I asked an actual Immigration officer what would be done in a situation like this, and he said that if those kinds of marriages were the custom in their home country, and they were already married, there’s not much we could do. But if they come to the US unmarried, and then try to marry here, it’d be against the law regardless of their cultural norms.
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