For the committee, as you know, we tried an earlier motion to go to Afghanistan, and unfortunately the powers that be suggested not. So this is sort of a compromise in a way.
In the four-city tour we did and in the next two cities that we will do, I'm sure we'll hear the same evidence, that every one of the returning soldiers who had the opportunity to go to Cyprus for decompression thought that was the greatest thing, thought that was really fabulous. It really helped them out and gave them that chance to catch their breath and, as one guy said, have a bunch of beer.
So I thought it would be really interesting for a committee in our study of post-traumatic stress and other ailments to look at how that actually works. When they come back from the war zone, they go into Cyprus. How are they set up? What forms do they fill out? What discussions do they have?
Eventually they'll become veterans. How does that process help them and their families in dealing with some of the future problems they may have? That's why I moved the motion.