Given your experience as a peacekeeper—and you did mention a number of the countries you'd served in, including Germany and Cyprus.... I recognize that each peacekeeping mission is a little bit different, but there's a myth out there that seems to be perpetuated, which I have done my utmost to kill, that peacekeeping missions are somehow safe and there's no fear of any harm coming to a peacekeeper. The average person in the general public, when they think of a peacekeeper, thinks of a person who's handing out candy or doing goodwill sorts of things.
My experience, from what I've learned, not only from this committee but also from four years of being heavily involved with veterans is that peacekeeping missions are oftentimes far more dangerous than actual combat missions, because you never know who's coming at you, and from where, and you have a very limited mandate as to how you can respond.
So I'd just like to give you an opportunity to perhaps explain to the public at large the dangers of being a peacekeeper, because it isn't all roses and handing out candy; it's a very dangerous thing to be doing. So I'll just give you an opportunity to elaborate, if you wish.