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Citizen Ship

Posted: July 01, 2023

Students pick up trash at a marsh near Oakland, California. (Paul Chinn/San Francisco Chronicle via AP)
Alexis de Tocqueville wrote about volunteers in the United States. (Public domain)
Alyssa Boyd, age five, set up a lemonade stand near Lightstreet, Pennsylvania. (AP/Bloomsburg Press Enterprise, Bill Hughes)
Try baking cookies for people who serve your town. (Pixabay)
There’s a link at the end of this story. Click it to print your own volunteer bingo card.

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Alexis de Tocqueville was a writer from France. He visited the United States back in the 1800s. He had some complimentary things to say about American volunteers. “They hardly ever failed to lend faithful support to each other,” he wrote in his famous book Democracy in America. What if Mr. de Tocqueville visited your hometown today? Would he spot you “lending faithful support” to those nearby?

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