. >> i am helen hayes. many of us who are living now will never see the end of the conflict which dominates our lives. leaders change and leadership passes from one generation to the next. but for generations, or certainly, for many years, the challenge which confronts us will continue. so it becomes not just a hope, but an urgent condition for a peaceful future that those who are catapulted into the problems of maturity with every passing year, will understand the challenge. and devote themselves to it even as you and i must. interest cannot lag. efforts not cease. it will require the sternest kind of dedication. bred as it were, into the american character. the training grounds in which this discipline will be planted and perfected are the institutions which have shaped our society. particularly, the home, which is always been, in our culture, the nucleus of society itself. the home is the well spring of the strongest qualities of citizenship. and it must remain so if we are to preserve the toughness of m

and one of the members of that group was the great actress helen hayes. and one of her quotations in support of women serving their country, we have etched in one of the glass tablets that form the skylight to the memorial. and her words are, all of us must work at patriotism, not just believe in it. for only by their young women offering services to their country as working patriots in the armed forces can our defenses be adequate. those words were true then. they're true today. so we had that happen. now, from the standpoint of the memorial here in 2002 at our fifth anniversary, we opened our korean war exhibit which you'll find in the gallery on down that way. and in 2005 we published a book called -- right here it is "a defense weapon known to be of value," meaning women. it is about all of the service women. it isn't just about the nurses. it's about all the women who served, whether they were overseas in europe, where they were overseas in the pacific or serving in the united states or if they were serving in korea. so we're going to have this book