The United States military helps provide freedom to Americans. Their sacrifice can never be repaid fully.

One small intriguing historical note is they helped bring pizza to America.

Soldiers stationed in Italy during WWII fell in love with the pie and soon after, it arrived in America. 70 years later pizza has become a $37 Billion year restaurant industry.

Here’s the Tweet that sparked my desire to look into this. This is the first newspaper article written on pizza here in America: