I don't know if I'm going to be able to add to this discussion or not, because what I was thinking about 20 minutes ago has been kicked around here before.
Betty, I think the discussion around this issue today underlines the merit of proceeding with something like this. I think the discussion has been positive. I think the questions that have been asked are very valid questions. We share a common desire around this table to better serve the veterans of this country, and I'll never question that.
But as to the legality of it and whether or not it would hold water, I think we should try to flesh it out more. As Mr. Roy indicated, it would be great to have it concise, and I think we should boil it down to five, six, or seven points, or whatever it might be. But then we should flesh them out in a bigger document, whether or not it's a document that's displayed in every Legion in this country, that better expands on what each of the lines of intent is in this charter. We could maybe pursue that route.
But I think we'd allow our veterans to feel better and more assured if we could better serve them. I agreed with Peter Stoffer when he said we should be cautious about being patronizing.
On the one that says “Be listened to so we may understand your needs and be sensitive to them”, I know any husband around this table who's worth his weight has pulled that club out of his bag--that you're sensitive to your wife's needs, and she says, okay, great, but what you are going to do for me? That's one you can only play so often.
So let's go forward here. I think there's a will around the table to go forward on this. But let's make sure that when they pull it out of their wallets, they have something that has some clout, or we would hope has some clout. I think finding where we stand with the legality of it is important.