Overview

Milestones of Freedom

Get ready for an emotional experience that will rock your world, thrill your heart and give you hope for the future of America! This is an interactive simulated experience that staff and participants love!

Participants are immigrants with the quest to become TRUE AMERICANS. Most people in America were born in America and don’t know what it is like to not have the freedoms and blessing we have. This event provides an opportunity for participants to become “immigrants” on a quest to become TRUE AMERICANS. It is an opportunity to “re-dedicate” our citizenship in the principles that have made America great.

Volunteers become “Ellis Island Officials” who help “new immigrants” through the process of becoming “TRUE AMERICANS.” Depending on the extent of your field this may include an orientation, providing the immigration kit, administering the citizenship test and the oath of citizenship.

We define a TRUE AMERICAN as someone who loves the principles America was founded upon and who will work to keep America free!

To recognize TRUE AMERICANS your field of flags is turned into Ellis Island complete with an interactive assembly, passports, citizenship testing, citizenship commitments and much more! Those involved will sense a swell of patriotism as they go through the requirements to become TRUE AMERICANS.

A full event give participants the full experience. Before the event, volunteers are trained on the full experience. On the day of the event, immigrants (participants) come to an orientation and learn about Ellis Island and why America is a nation that many people will risk almost anything to come to. Then immigrants may choose to purchase an immigration kit. To become TRUE AMERICANS participants must take a 10-question citizenship test, which must be passed with a score of 70%. Then participants must walk through the Milestones of Freedom in the field of flags with their passports and agree to all ten of the citizenship commitments. After that the participants must have their passports checked and counter initialed whereupon they are then ready to be administered the Oath of Citizenship. After this they are awarded their signed Citizenship Certificate and given a TRUE AMERICAN sticker for the back of their passports. At this point the participant is warmly congratulated on becoming a TRUE AMERICAN.

School groups, church groups, clubs or any civic-minded organization can bring all of their members for a truly life-changing experience, one in which our citizens sorely need—a rededication of our citizenship.