American soldiers and sailors fought courageously and selflessly in both the European and Pacific theaters. But the Nazis never laid siege to, say, Philadelphia, killing over a million through starvation and cold, as they did to Leningrad. They never occupied the Great Plains states and forced American farmers to feed them while our people went hungry, as they did in Ukraine. Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Arsenal of Democracy, the industrial engine that supplied the logistics for victory, was an amazing achievement. But imagine if, to flee the oncoming Nazis, we had to dismantle the entire industrial base of Detroit, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, etc., only to relocate and rebuild each factory west of the Rocky Mountains! That’s exactly what the Russian people did in moving their productive capabilities, along with some 10 million people, east of the Urals at the outset of the invasion. For them, the war was not “over there.”