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Volume 99, Issue 4 11

“For over three decades, we have worked closely with National Sojourners and welcomed nearly 2,500 of
their students to our Spirit of America Youth Leadership program,” said Freedoms Foundation CEO David
Harmer. “We share a multitude of values with the National Sojourners® including their love of country and
desire to provide students with an extraordinary opportunity to learn more about our country’s history and its
promising future. We are humbled and grateful for their dedication to America’s youth and our mission at
Freedoms Foundation.”

Attending the Spirit of America Youth Leadership program were students from the following states:

California, 6 Missouri, 1 Pennsylvania, 9
Colorado, 3 New Jersey, 2 Virginia, 10

Georgia, 2 North Carolina, 8 West Virginia, 1

In addition to sponsoring and supporting their students, National Sojourners is also celebrating the upcoming
th
100 anniversary of the Heroes of ’76, an affiliated auxiliary organization of National Sojourners. Their
membership includes Sojourners who have been bestowed with the Heroes of ’76 degree for outstanding
service.

Contacts:
Sarah Rasmussen , Director of Communications , Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge
Michael M. Wertz, LTC, USA (Ret), Chairman, Americanism Committee , National Sojourners Inc.

We met President Thomas Jefferson who led
students in an exercise on how to craft an effective
argument. President Jefferson then posed for photos
with NP Denny Norris, Americanism Chairman Mike
Wertz, students and chaperones on the steps of the
Martha Washington building at FFVF.

Brothers Winton Hewitt, Len Bezar and Gary
Portnoy of Benjamin Franklin Chapter No. 16 prepare
to conduct the Building of the Flag Ceremony in
chapel at FFVF.