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Jun 26, 2008 1:50 pm US/Eastern

Ceremony Set For Law Prompted By Maryland Soldier

BALTIMORE (AP) ― A ceremony has been scheduled next week at Fort McHenry to honor a Maryland soldier killed in Iraq while trying to complete an application for U.S. citizenship.

Maryland Senator Barbara Mikulski and Congressman Elijah Cummings say they will attend a ceremony Tuesday to mark the Kendell Frederick Citizenship Act.

Frederick, of Randallstown, was a 21-year-old native of Trinidad who had been living in the United States since 1999. He died while riding in a convoy to provide fingerprints needed for his citizenship application when a bomb exploded by a road near Tikrit in October 2005.

The new law will direct the Department of Homeland Security to use fingerprints taken by the Defense Department at induction for citizenship applications.

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