The White House said Monday the nation's flag would be flown at half-staff in honor of Powell at American embassies abroad and on public and military grounds until sunset Friday.
Colin Powell, the first Black secretary of State and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, dies of COVID-19 complications after bout with blood cancer.While working as a teenager for Sickser’s, a Jewish-owned store in the Bronx, Powellup a little Yiddish. In 2013, Powell spoke about how the store owner, a Russian Jewish immigrant, helped change his life by insisting he had more potential and should get an education.
“In direct refutation of this portrayal is the fact that relations between American soldiers and the Vietnamese people are excellent,” PowellPowell would later be accused of whitewashing U.S. atrocities in Vietnam. In 2004, he told the late CNN host
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