One of the proudest things I did as a reporter was a series of Youtube videos called: Interviews with Immigrants.
During these interviews I sat down with a person born in another country and talked to them about their life, their coming to America etc.
One of those interviews was with Hanna From Iraq: At the time she agreed to an audio only interview: You can listen to it here:
It’s been seven years since I conducted this interview Hanna was 23 and we worked together at my former company. She moved on a while ago although we became friendly and she picked up a love of things American including pinball:
Yup that’s Pintastic 2019 back in Sturbridge on the last day as they are taking the last machines out.
Well every year I take some friends out for a Woosox game as a Christmas present so that we can enjoy not only baseball but some time together which is the real gift and Hanna was invited. It was also her graduation day from college so she attended in her cap and gown. After the game she wanted to take some pictures from center field and it hit me that it would be a pretty good sequel to our initial interview to talk to her about her journey to this point. So I pulled out my camera and here we are: Hanna from Iraq seven years later:
When Marco Rubio talked about what America is, this is what he was talking about.
The full interviews with immigrants playlist is here:
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