Today my guest is Scott Stump, who is the CEO and President of the National Desert Storm War Memorial Association which is working to build the Desert Storm/Desert Shield memorial near the National Mall in Washington, DC. We discuss:
• Reviewing the situation back at that time before and during the war
• His involvement in the war
• What inspired him to join the Marine Corps
• Saddam’s plan to make Kuwait part of Iraq
• What Saddam’s troops did to the Kuwaiti citizens during the occupation
• George H.W. Bush’s leadership during that time
• The mission of the coalition in the war
• What he thought about the recognition parade after the war; what it really meant
• What the memorial will highlight
• Explaining the “pivot” in the public’s view of the military
• How the permitting process went of getting the memorial near the Mall
• What the war memorial will look like and its message
• What makes the memorial unique compared to the other war memorials
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