Anyone who serves in the military, or who sends a child off to fight for this country, deserves to have citizenship granted, in my opinion.  But some do not allow for exemptions, waivers, variances or the like.  They have no use for extenuating circumstances.

Of course, I'm a bit bitter, because my grandparents, who came here from Italy in 1911, were never granted citizenship, because they could not read or write English, even though they greatly loved their new country, and, when WWII broke out, proudly sent their kids off to fight for it, even against their homeland.