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 Mhm

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Yeah

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through my speech you can hear that I
am a naturalized american and

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Gregory's first generation american in
our small way, this is our way of

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bringing educational opportunities to
our young generation. The wealth of

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our country is the young generation.
Before we enter any country or do

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anything in any country, humanitarian
help or anything else. We have to

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have a background of their history and
knowledge of what the country is

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all about. I'm licking center was
already existing with a few languages.

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We just helped it grow. I'm the
commander, honorary commander of luke Air

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Force base since november. The
language of Afghanistan is pashtu and his

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back we're teaching pashto and Uzbek
today dot it is another language that

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we're teaching. We're teaching these
what are called critical languages

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with one of the few universities in
the country That's teaching these

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critical languages, there is a new law
that has been passed by our

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military, that anyone who wants to go
up the rank of in the military

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itself has to know two languages. Uh
for the 60 years of Air Force reserve

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officer, I served 60 years is a
lifetime. We believe if you speak each

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other's languages, you're not up to
bomb each other. We need a good,

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strong military, our family believes.
But as ambassadors of the United

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States not to kill or be killed or
maimed. We believe in peace In my

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military record of 1944 and 45 enables
me because I've been bombed on the

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ground. I've been shot at in the air
in France in World War Two. So I can

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afford to say peace is far better than
war, and that's what the Melikian

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Center is actively working on a day to
day basis. Peace Yeah.