We co sponsored that legislation, which eventually was taken up by the pact act and passed. And I think the thing that we all had in mind as we were putting forward this legislation is what The Vietnam generation went through, the Agent Orange generation, the veterans of Vietnam who got exposed to Agent Orange and who, for the better part of 30 years, had to fight for recognition from the VA that that Agent Orange exposure led to the health problems they were struggling with. And we made a concerted effort to say, we're not going to let the Persian Gulf era and the 911 era veterans go through that same laborious process. (07:07–07:25)
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