Officials say they have now have sufficient funds to complete the project and hope to begin construction next year.
The memorial has been in the making for years, with the past four spent raising money and finalizing the design. Stump, a Gulf War veteran and the CEO and president of the National Desert Storm Memorial Association, said the group has sufficient funding to complete the project. Officials hope to begin construction early next year and open it to the public in 2024.
Stump said $10 million came from the Kuwaiti government, as well as unspecified “additional funding,” and thanked Salem Abdullah Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, the Kuwaiti ambassador to the United States, for helping secure the money. “I never felt like I would be abandoned. Desert Storm is a demonstration of all good things that can happen on a positive, moral mission,” Cornum said. “I hope this memorial teaches people to not judge the importance of a war by how long it takes or the number of deaths, but what’s at stake and what’s accomplished.”the association’s ability to fundraise and engage donors, and some
“I take a lot of pride in knowing that there are thousands of Desert Storm and Desert Shield veterans and family members that will see this for history,” Freeman said. “Just to know that families that will be there and knowing their sons and daughters will never be forgotten is a sense of a pride like I’ve never had ever on any project.”
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