millions have served, and it's important that we provide a place for these folks. mike and i have seen over the last couple of years the transformative power of space and the ability to bring people together for reunion for contemplation for kind of understanding that service experience and that's what this is about, is providing now two generations of americans whose lives have been defined by these conflicts that sense of place, that opportunity to come together to think about what that experience meant to them. >> and congressman gallagher, i know you mentioned this is bipartisan. i think this is really important that you two did this together, spearheaded this. and why -- how did you? just tell us a little bit about the process about how you decided to make this effort together? >> well, in the last congress, i was fortunate enough to work with a democrat and my friend representative seth molton to get the initial piece of legislation which made the global war on terrorism except from restrictive language in the