For four years, Russian immigrant Dimitri Muscat served in the U.S. Army. He learned to speak English more fluently than his native Russian. He viewed the U.S. military as “the world’s best Army,” said his mother, who helped her son achieve posthumous citizenship.
“We have an African Grey parrot. She speaks Russian and English. I remember he was teaching her just one word she did not say for a long time. Then, after two years, a year and a half, boom, she said. And she repeated his voice, exactly his voice.
And sometimes, she calls him: ‘Dima! Dima!’ the short name. She calls him. It’s so funny, how she remembers that. She did not hear him almost a year and a half. For us, it’s a good memory, because he is not with us, but we can hear his voice.”
– Ksenia Muscat, mother
