Sixteen million men left their homes, families, farms, mines, and factories to preserve freedoms that many take for granted today. Their wives, sisters, and mothers also left their homes to work in factories in support of the war effort. With their lives and minds, they changed the course and mind of the world and made history. Those same men and women came home and did the impossible: they built the greatest country the world has ever known. America can never thank them enough, and people are forever grateful to those called America's greatest generation.