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absolutely. thank you so much for having me here, giving me the opportunity to share the story with so many people. i think the reality is, most people, when they think of women and what were to think of rosy the river, or maybe a book or two about the spies and code breakers who served fine and any lines. you know, getting information for the allies. the reality is, the combination of women, women in uniform, is so much larger than that. so as you, mentioned over 350,000 american women served in uniform in world war ii, which to give viewers a sense of scale about the size of the active duty navy today. so it is a big number. but even more important, the size of the contribution, was the actual content of the contribution. so, women were in critical support roles that are often underappreciated by most americans, when we think about why we won world war ii. so they were doing things like fixing planes, redeploying them, in the pacific, laying cable so headquarters could communicate