You're right there. I don't think museums can afford to buy them or to buy all of them. This bill isn't out there to buy every medal that has been presented, but again, significant medals... As for when you talk about price or where the price might be, well, for a service medal, everyone who served got a service medal, but not everyone got a Silver Cross. There were very few Silver Crosses.
So I'm sure a Silver Cross would garner a higher price than a service medal. At the same time, the service medal that belonged to the person who got the Silver Cross would probably be... I'm only thinking. This is where they might get some value.
My thing is that museums can't afford to buy them. This is not a bill to scoop up every medal that has ever been made. That is not what the previous bill, the Cultural Property Export and Import Act, did. The museums would look at that particular medal. It would go to a review board. The review board would say whether or not they were interested in it and if it could go out of the country. It's that way.
Again, my bill is not to change everything; it's to give recognition and the same respect to our modern medals that we do to our medals that are 50 and 100 years old.