Much like everyone else posting today, the role of women in these posters is highly intriguing. Aubrey highlights the role of women as carers in a lot of the posters, and how they end up "behind the man behind the gun" to care for the homefront and support the men fighting off on the front. James supports this by saying women in these posters exist to "distinguish male participation as more vital" (James 30). However, this poster, entitled USA Bonds Third Liberty Loans Boy Scouts of America, flips that idea in a compelling manner, setting Lady Liberty in the more masculine fighter role and the Boy Scout almost as a medieval squire. Lady Liberty does appear more manly and much less timid than a lot of the other women seen in the posters in the Special Collections archive. Nevertheless, she stands resolute, holding her shield and draped in an American flag toga, defending the United States against an enemy off in the distance, which would be understood to be the Germans. The use of a sword and shield harkens back to knights and chivalrous fighting, coloring World War I as an honorable fight, and not one waged using "machine guns, long-range artillery, submarines," and chemical weapons (James 1). The presense of the Boy Scout in the foreground, handing the sword up to Lady Liberty, stands as a direct call to action on the homefront. If this child is doing his due diliigence and assisting in the war effort, then the observer of this poster has no real excuse to not buy war bonds and support the soldiers. In addition, "Be Prepared," one of the main tennants of the Boy Scouts of America, is engraved on Lady Liberty's sword. This implies the best way to support the American war machine is to excercise constant vigillance, and that vigillance is the best weapon that the US could employ against their enemies.