The Silas Zone

  I want you to imagine it's 1945. Just four years earlier, America was ambushed by Japan in Pearl Harbor. The Japanese intended the attack to intimidate the American people into fear and retreat.  Turns out you can't scare America out of a fight. American men everywhere stepped up to the enemy that was threatening their country. Within one year of Pearl Harbor, over four million men went into the military, sacrificing their careers, families, and their lives. Japan unsuspectingly awakened a sleeping giant of rallying American people that would not back down from a fight. America back then was filled with grit, bravery, and patriotism. They stood for their freedoms and their nation regardless of the consequences. These values shaped America and, really, the entire world. The wicked powers of Nazi Germany and imperial Japan were defeated while freedom remained. What an epic time in American history. By 1945, the United States was a world superpower backed with a booming econom...