national service

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Today, we are losing the sense of connection between individual action and national service.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

Prosperity itself can be a form of national service.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 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

Andrew Fyffe, from Govan Law Centre, runs the statutory national service which supports parents to appeal against local authority decisions on special schools.

From BBC • Aug. 28, 2025

He and his wife were very happy, and Mrs. Grant was correspondingly depressed when the exigencies of the national service took her husband away from her.

From The Revellers by Tracy, Louis