presently, 200 were able to attend the ceremony and walked acceptedanie parrish it. she excepted on behalf of all of them, and the original metal was given to the smithsonian bytitution as was directed the bill that president barack obama had signed. this story is one that even though they were granted veteran status and got this honor, it is really a story that a lot of people are not familiar with. they did not ask for this credit. they came to serve their country, and they came together and released men to fly overseas helpg world war ii to america win this war, and when it was done, they packed up their bags, they paid their own way home, and they left it at that. these women really change the at aof america's military time when their country needed them, and that is the story that we are currently here telling at the history museum. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2015] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] announcer: now, a look at the american