The Ceremony Where Every Flag Became One

Every September at Fenway Park in Boston, something remarkable happens. During a single naturalization ceremony, hundreds of people from over fifty nations rise from their seats and raise their right hands together. A woman from Ethiopia stands beside a man from the Philippines. A teenager from Ukraine shares the row with a grandmother from Guatemala. They have come speaking different languages, carrying different sorrows, having survived different storms — war, poverty, persecution, years of paperwork and waiting.…