Eliezer Ben-Yehuda and his new wife, Devora, sailed wide-eyed into the port of Joppa, which is in Israel. They had dreamed forever that they would be able one day to step into the Holy Land, and now their dream had come true. They arranged to get [...]

In the aftermath of World War I, the Red Cross recruited American young men to travel to Europe to help the suffering masses over there, and one farm boy from Missouri caught the vision. He was too young to apply, but he forged the date on his birth [...]