national service

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For the rest of us, a culture of national service beyond the military is essential to a healthy patriotism.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

They can become instruments of the state and be called upon to perform national service, as investors saw during the 2008 financial crisis.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 19, 2026

The committee behind the initiative maintains that requiring every Swiss citizen, regardless of gender, to do national service in the army or in a civilian capacity would strengthen the social cohesion.

From Barron's • Nov. 27, 2025

Son made front page news in 2020 when he travelled back to his home country for compulsory national service.

From BBC • Aug. 2, 2025

Townshend performed, only on a smaller scale, the same national service which Pitt performed on a larger one.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 57, No. 351, January 1845 by Various