Once homeless, teen from the Bronx will be guest at State of the Union

[Omaha Steve]

Also see this post in LBN with the full guest list: http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014992320


http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/bronx/teen-bronx-homeless-attend-union-address-article-1.2083401


Anthony Mendez, 19, will be an honored guest of First Lady Michelle Obama at the President's speech Tuesday night at the Capitol. Now a freshman at University of Hartford, he spent six months living in a Brooklyn homeless shelter during high school.

BY ELI ROSENBERG NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Sunday, January 18, 2015, 11:22 PM

A formerly homeless teen from the Bronx is headed to the State of the Union address as the First Lady’s honored guest.

Michelle Obama invited college freshman Anthony Mendez, 19, to listen to the President’s speech at the Capitol with her — a tribute to the struggles Mendez overcame in high school.

The ecstatic University of Hartford student said he was making dinner when he got the call that he would be a guest in the First Lady’s box Tuesday night.

“I burned the rice; I was all excited,” he told the Daily News.

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