America’s Easter Argosy ship of World War I still inspires with its spirit of generosity and hope: William Lambers

America’s Easter Argosy ship of World War I still inspires with its spirit of generosity and hope: William Lambers

Before Easter in 1915, there were distressing reports reaching America about the suffering in Belgium. World War I had started in Europe, and Belgium was under siege from the combatants – and from the inevitable hunger that always comes with fighting. Hunger was so extreme that “Belgian mothers go groping through rubbish heaps in search of empty condensed milk cans in hope that some few traces of the contents may remain,” Belgium relief director…