Today my guest on Right in DC 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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