“Light Armored Reconnaissance today is built great for another Desert Shield, Desert Storm,” Berger said Wednesday. “I don’t see that likelihood as being very great.”
The memorial has a planned cost of about $40 million, and current law requires that 100 percent of funding be raised prior to initial groundbreaking, according to the National Desert Storm Memorial Association.
The image has long outlasted that day's news cycle: When Matt Miller meets someone with a connection to the Saratoga, they usually remember that photo.
By Matt Soergel, (Jacksonville) Florida Times-Union via the AP