1.in modern day monasteries, monks remain silent during certain parts of the day.

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ExplanationOn October 24, 2000, Congress directed the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a theme study of

the World War II home front.1

The purpose of the study is to identify historic places that best

represent the wartime mobilization that occurred in the United States and its territories and

possessions between 1939 and 1945 to assist in identifying whether any of these places should be

considered for potential inclusion in the National Park System.

The task of identifying places that can tell the home front story is a challenging one. Thousands

of factories, government office buildings, research laboratories, housing projects, military bases,

United Service Organization (USO) canteens, day care centers, and schools were built or

expanded during the war. Theaters in hundreds of communities across the nation sponsored War

Bond drives and showed both terrifying news reels and uplifting and entertaining movies.

Railroad and bus stations in large cities and small towns could barely contain the millions of men

and women passing through them on their way to military service or new defense jobs. Other

places represented less positive wartime stories: segregated housing and military bases, war

relocation centers for persons of Japanese descent, prisons where conscientious objectors were

held, and sites of racial conflict or labor/management confrontation.

Some home front properties have already been recognized. A number are included in the

National Park System. The Rosie the Riveter/World War II Home Front National Historical

Park, in Richmond, California, was established in 2000 specifically to recognize the important

wartime contributions of workers, including women and minorities, and ordinary citizens, who

collected and saved and sacrificed on the home front. Others have been designated as National

Historic Landmarks or listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

Because World War II is still so recent, most home front properties have not yet been

comprehensively surveyed or evaluated. In addition, many sites have been lost to demolition or

destructive change, in part because no one knew they were important. While these facts have

made the completion of this theme study more difficult, they have also underlined the urgent

necessity of providing the historic contexts needed to identify and recognize these properties as

quickly as possible.: