American Dream: The Journey of a Haitian Immigrant turned US Army Black Hawk Pilot
By Maggie BenZvi | May 21, 2020
A newly minted West Point graduate, Alix Idrache was not expecting May 24, 2016, to be a particularly exceptional day. “I was having a regular day. I just graduated, I’m really happy,†he said. But then he logged on to his Facebook account — “I had HUNDREDS of friend requests. I was like, ‘Who are these people? I don’t know that many people. What’s going on?’†He had a huge list of notifications that he had been tagged in a picture. “I’m like, ‘Yo, what’s happening?’â€
Idrache had gone viral. West Point’s Facebook page posted a photograph of him at the previous weekend’s graduation, tears streaming down his face. “I asked my younger sister, and she said, ‘All I know is that this one news outlet in the Haitian diaspora here was asking to talk to you,’†he said.
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