A couple of hours ago I returned from Los Angeles with my wife.  We were there so that she could take the oath of citizenship of the United States of America.

 After they repeated the oath the new Americans waved little American flags and cheered loudly.  I turned to the man sitting beside me whose wife was also taking the oath, and like me, his eyes were filled with tears.

 We recited the pledge of allegiance with the new Americans, sang the National Anthem, and cried to the song “God Bless the USA” by Lee Greenwood.

 I met up with her moments later and my wife was grinning from ear to ear.  “I can vote,” she said.  “I can vote.”

 Mrs. Pistachio will talk about her experience of becoming an American and her powerful American pride on Political Pistachio Radio this Saturday.

 God Bless America.