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

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

During the year ended in September 2023, nearly 28% of retirement-age individuals formally volunteered through an organization, estimates AmeriCorps, the government agency for national service and volunteerism.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 15, 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

If they are not happy and if they are not at ease in connexion with their national service, you cannot expect any of those larger results for which highminded statesmen are seeking the world over.

From The War and Unity Being Lectures Delivered At The Local Lectures Summer Meeting Of The University Of Cambridge, 1918 by Cranage, D. H. S. (David Herbert Somerset)