A Dallas ISD student is ready to serve the country that gave him so much in return.
He's graduating from W.T. White High School and headed to West Point Academy.
It's an enormous accomplishment for a teen who immigrated to the U.S. from Ethiopia just a few years ago. Hamersen Bekele had never traveled outside of his country until he moved to Dallas with him mom, who is from the U.S.Now, he's headed to West Point, the first student from W.T. White High School to do so in more than a decade.Inside Major Nebyou Yonas' ROTC class at W.T. White, students were celebrating one of their own.It's a huge accomplishment for the 18-year-old who moved to Dallas with his mom in 2019 from Ethiopia.
"The first word he said was what’s up in my language, and I was like, what?! Wow. I was so happy," he recalled.Yonas encouraged Bekele to join the ROTC class."He was a guy who worked hard. Like, you know, if I give him a 95, he'll say, ‘What do I have to do to make this 100,’ and if I say do 100 push-ups, he'll go and do that," Yonas said.Bekele is the first W.T. White student to attend West Point in more than a decade.
After serving his country, Bekele wants to be a doctor and help people back home in Ethiopia, where his father still lives.
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