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Advocates fight for Desert Storm memorial site near National Mall
Alan Harwood, an excutive with the AECOM design firm working with the National Desert Storm and Desert Shield Memorial group, makes a presentation for the possible sites for a memorial during a hearing before the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, Oct. 19, 2017.<br>Carlos Bongioanni/Stars and Stripes
Alan Harwood, an excutive with the AECOM design firm working with the National Desert Storm and Desert Shield Memorial group, makes a presentation for the possible sites for a memorial during a hearing before the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, Oct. 19, 2017.<br>Carlos Bongioanni/Stars and Stripes

Retired four-star Army Gen. Ronald Griffith made an impassioned case Thursday for the new National Desert Storm and Desert Shield War Memorial to be placed near the National Mall, adjacent to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis pauses before answering a reporter's question about the ambush of U.S. troops in Niger before a meeting with Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman at the Pentagon, Thursday, Oct. 19, 2017.<br>Alex Brandon/AP
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Alan Harwood, an excutive with the AECOM design firm working with the National Desert Storm and Desert Shield Memorial group, makes a presentation for the possible sites for a memorial during a hearing before the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, Oct. 19, 2017.<br>Carlos Bongioanni/Stars and Stripes
Alan Harwood, an excutive with the AECOM design firm working with the National Desert Storm and Desert Shield Memorial group, makes a presentation for the possible sites for a memorial during a hearing before the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, Oct. 19, 2017.<br>Carlos Bongioanni/Stars and Stripes

Advocates fight for Desert Storm memorial site near National Mall

Retired four-star Army Gen. Ronald Griffith made an impassioned case Thursday for the new National Desert Storm and Desert Shield War Memorial to be placed near the National Mall, adjacent to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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