WHITE HOUSE NOTEBOOK: Obama salutes new citizens

By Darlene Superville

Published April 25, 2014 3:20pm ET

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WHITE HOUSE NOTEBOOK: Obama salutes new citizens — An American flag is presented with South Korean national flags during a bilateral meeting between U.S. President Barack Obama and South Korean President Park Geun-hye at the Blue House, Friday, April 25, 2014, in Seoul, South Korea, as gesture to the families of the victims of the ferry disaster in the water off the country's southern coast. It was flown over the White House on the same day of the Sewol sinking, Obama said. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) | Carolyn Kaster

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — They had come from 14 countries, their lives and loves somehow fated to end up in South Korea. Many wore a U.S. military uniform. And it was here, in Asia, that they became citizens of the United States in the presence of their president.

President Barack Obama attended a naturalization ceremony Friday at the National War Memorial which honors the dead from the Korean War. In one place, Obama remembered fallen Americans and welcomed new ones.

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