An 88-Year-Old Retired Army General hosts a podcast to share his views on how diversity, equity and inclusion promote our nation’s founding goal of “a more perfect union.”  “I have lived through 16 presidents, World War II, racial segregation, the civil rights movement, Korea, Vietnam, 9/11 and the Gulf Wars,” says BG Don L. Scott, USA (Ret.). I am a living testament to how America has evolved to include all of its citizens.” 

BG Don L. Scott, USA (Ret.) entered the Army in 1961, when there were no African-American generals in the reserves or active forces, and retired in 1993 after commanding troops in the US, Germany, Okinawa and Vietnam.  He also managed planning for the Olympics, is a founding director of the National Civilian Community Corps (NCCC) and served as CEO and deputy librarian at the Library of Congress. General Scott created The Veterans History Project at the American Folk Art Center in New York City and he’s not done yet. 

Military.com reports that he has recently started a new podcast to highlight “the diversity of America’s military and the contributions made by leaders in corporate, higher education, health care and other industries,” saying, “it is necessary to remind anyone who will listen that America is built on the backs of immigrant and minority populations.”

You can read the entire Military.com story on General Scott HERE