Cyrus Kamara lives in Germantown. He has been a Montgomery County residents for more than 10 years. On June 14, he watched his mother, Matilda Kamara, become an American citizen during a naturalization ceremony for 43 people at the Celebrate Gaithersburg Festival.
Naturalization candidates were from Brazil, Cameroon, China, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Ghana, Haiti, India, Jamaica, Kenya, Liberia, Malaysia, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Philippines, Russia, South Korea, St. Lucia, Sudan, Sweden, the United Kingdom and Vietnam.
"It was [an] emotional and very happy moment ... These are so many of the things that make this country really powerful ... and we all have allegiance to this country," Kamara said adding the family moved from Liberia and ceremonies like this shows the nation's diversity.
