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Today, the “care package” is a household term, describing perhaps a box of Mom’s cookies. But 75 years ago, the original CARE packages, boxes of basic foodstuffs and other essentials, arrived in France, sent by Americans to a devastated and demoralized Europe. The packages carried mostly food, but for many Europeans they brought forms of sustenance the war had severely depleted: optimism, and a renewed faith in humanity. “We were very hungry, the country was destroyed, so the 30 or so p...

Today, the “care package” is a household term, describing perhaps a box of Mom’s cookies. But 75 years ago, the original CARE packages, boxes of basic foodstuffs and other essentials, arrived in France, sent by Americans to a devastated and demoralized Europe. The packages carried mostly food, but for many Europeans they brought forms of sustenance the war had severely depleted: optimism, and a renewed faith in humanity. “We were very hungry, the country was destroyed, so the 30 or so p...