email article America is at war! We are fighting a malicious, microscopic, worldwide enemy that has already killed more in the U.S. than the total number of U.S. troops and civilians lost in World War II. In fact, we can find no more appropriate equivalency than WWII. Even after 80 years, we still marvel at the accomplishments of the home front, totally mobilized on behalf of the war effort. The automotive industry completely shut down car production and re-tooled in record time to produce tanks and planes. The Kaiser shipyards, built from scratch, turned out thousands of Liberty ships. And let us not forget the Manhattan Project, the unprecedented mobilization of scientific and engineering talent operating under terrifying time pressure. At home, average Americans, ever fearful for loved ones overseas, sacrificed by accepting the rationing of sugar, meat, and gasoline.