Come, boys and girls, just listen to this news for you and me: They’re going to send a Christmas Ship across the deep blue sea!
Men, women, nurses, sailors, soldiers and a man in a funny hat. What are they doing? Packing gifts for Christmas. The clue is in Henry Sawyer’s song lyrics. It was 1914, and as World War I ravaged Europe, leaving countless children homeless in its wake, America’s sympathies were aroused.
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