Article Topic: voluntary service
The Challenge of Pursuing Peace
A Civilian Public Service Story
I was about to enter the eighth grade in the summer of 1939 when the German blitzkrieg rolled across the Polish border on the first day of September. Two days later Great Britain and France declared war on Germany. Little did I realize that the United States would become involved,...read more
From the Editor
The stories of many of CPS workers are told on the website civilianpublicservice.org, a site created in 2011 by Mennonite Central Committee for the 70thanniversary of the opening of the first CPS camp in 1941. The civilianpublicservice.org website is a treasure trove of information about a generation that is almost...read more