National Sojourners is an American patriotic organization of Freemasons who have served in the United States Uniformed Services, or are elected to honorary membership.
The stated purpose of the organization is "to organize current and former members of the uniformed (...) of the United States (...) who are Master Masons (...) for the promotion of good fellowship among its members, (...) for developing true Patriotism and Americanism throughout the Nation (...)"[1] The organization pursues its aims by assisting local Masonic authorities through initiatives which promote American patriotism and Americanism, both with the fraternity and the community.
[3] The organization developed from a group of American Freemasons in the Philippines who participated from 1898 in meetings of a field lodge attached to the North Dakota Regiment of Volunteer Infantry, which met under a dispensation granted by the Grand Lodge of North Dakota.
When the regiment withdrew from the Philippines in 1900, the American Freemasons left behind formed an informal Sojourners Club.
Further Sojourners' clubs formed at army posts and naval bases around the United States and overseas.