liberty is the most expensive commodity in the world today we have it only because we are willing and able to pay the price for preserving it against communist aggression one big symbol of our willingness t fourteen nations that are committed to the fight for world freedom translated the challenge is the price of liberty we are paying a large share of that price part of those traditions started when liberty was a brand new idea in seventeen seventy seven poly bitch or our freedom at the battle of mom her name appears on the records of the continental war i was primarily a man but liberty was everybody's business and it was a woman's world too it was also their world war in those days there were enough men to meet our military needs but there were jobs and service for women who wanted the women shared in the victory and the honors the fallen to some of these women general pershing presented his banks in person perhaps he realized that he was taking a picture of the future  follow american women from twenty to fifty volunteers for service with the army the navy marine corps and coast guard pride and patriotism played a part in their decisions to enlist but for many of them there were deeper more personal reasons this mother enlisted with the coast guard to replace her son who died when the congressional medal of honor another mother enlisted at the same time and in the same service as are nineteen year old son brother women there were other reasons whatever they may have been the women were there it was a woman's world too in peace or war behind these women were heroic traditions  one of them was a for men the slats blacks waves cars women marines nurses dietitians their upis this was an all out war the do no boundaries every one of them was needed for a job that would help to win the  war no overnight miracle produced the women services it took more than a world plane or uniform to change an american girl and to an american service woman it took study perseverance courage and hard work it took a linguist to learn new does apply in the new skills whatever it during world war two wherever they landed they took the situation well in h many of them like these nurses that anzio came in while the guns were still hot all over the world wherever they were needed or wherever regulations permitted them to be sent and i reckon women were to write a new story in chapters and the histories of each of the services we were short of fighting men in world war two we needed those men at the front for the jobs that only men could do for the first time in history we were running short of manpower and our women by the thousands began to come into the picture it was a woman's war two and as the need became acute more and more of them came in to learn the skills which enabled them to take over more and more jobs we needed women for the jobs that women can do as well as men and we needed them for the jobs that women can do best as we watch them at work sharing the cost of victory one important idea became clear women in service were part of our military picture an essential part of our strength to fight for but we believe i for our women and service for online recognition was added to the personal satisfaction of a tough job well done this review by winston churchill was only one of the many marks of recognition for their outstanding contributions to allied victory from our own people came others like this plaque presented to all the women of the army for other individuals there were medals and citations for meritorious service above and beyond the call of duty at home and abroad the conduct of our service women was in keeping with our finest military tradition one of the lessons of world war two was that women were indispensable to our military establishment in war or the after world war two the department of defense undersecretary forest all brought all the services under unified command when the air force was created women in the air force took their places alongside the women of the army navy and marine many of them were veterans whose wartime service was come right in the special postage stamp that president truman first presented american women had fought for freedom they would fight to retain the women services were up to date and here to stay today i'm fourteen countries and territories and there i can service women are on guard up the sides of our fighting men carefully selected for character and intelligence they are there because we need them to fulfill our commitments to the cause of world at home or overseas we cannot pay our share of the cost of liberty with our men power alone today armed vigilance must back every troop in the war between freedom and slavery when