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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