We are a group of, actually, five co-founders. Some are retired veterans like me, and we also have serving members. It just came together as a thing that we needed to do as survivors. We are all injured. We all have PTSD diagnoses, so day-to-day volunteering is challenging, but we found that this is a way that we can give back and formally coordinate the perspective of survivors.
There are many peer support groups out there, and we are not a peer support group. That is not our intention. However, obviously, we want to coordinate with as many voices as we can so that, if there's a need for a focus group down the road with a specific identity factor, we can provide that. We can find those people, and we can have those conversations. The people who have come forward to us to talk to us....
Frankly, it's unbelievable. I've connected with classmates from the Royal Military College who I haven't spoken to in 20 years and who are coming to the realization that what we went through was not okay. We weren't allowed to speak at that time or our careers would have been over, and we were pitted against one another. It's incredible that we are now in this situation where we can talk about it and where we can make a change, and that is all we want to do.
Again, we're putting it on survivors who are volunteers at the moment, but we want to do this in a professionally coordinated format. It helps take all of those voices that are angry, that are yelling, that are shouting out there and then strip that down to the bare basics of what the problem is, what the connectors are and where the data is. We don't have that data. We don't know the full extent of this problem. I think that those are things that are very important if we are going to be able to combat this. We need to know how far it goes.