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May 24, 2009

A warrior for immigrants, citizens alike

Monica Torline
The Desert Sun

Karan Kler's family has enough four-star generals to fill in the better part of a football team's starting roster.

His grandfather was nearly trampled by a grateful crowd of Bengalis when he helped liberate Bangladesh in 1971. Before his father became a diplomat, he was an officer in the air force.

One would expect that Kler, too, would become a grand warrior. But his journey from Calcutta would ultimately lead to the Coachella Valley.

The “little military officer's sonâ€