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EDITORIAL: Colin Powell, soldier, general, statesman

There was a time, back in the 1980s, when young officers in the United States military cheered as one of their own made the big time. Colin Powell had been named chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the highest rank a uniformed soldier can obtain in the Department of Defense. Many of the lieutenants and captains around the army didn't cheer Colin Powell necessarily because of his skin color, or his background (his parents were immigrants from Jamaica), or any of the more popular check boxes. But instead because he was the first ROTC grad to obtain that rank.

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