Colin Powell remembered as a model for future generations
The flag-draped casket of former Secretary of State Colin Powell is carried into the Washington National Cathedral for a funeral service in Washington, Friday, Nov. 5, 2021. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
By ROBERT BURNS and MATTHEW LEE
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Colin L. Powell, the trailblazing soldier-diplomat who rose from humble beginnings to become the first Black secretary of state, was remembered by family and friends Friday as a principled man of humility and grace whose decorated record of leadership can serve as a model for generations to come...
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