WASHINGTON - The contrast between hope and fear could not have been starker on the morning of July 4.
Under a hot blue sky at Mount Vernon - once George and Martha Washington's home - on a bluff overlooking a bend in the Potomac, 50 people from 40 countries were sworn in as new citizens of the United States.
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