Politics aside, he served his country honorably in the armed forces for 35 years.
He was fully jabbed.
He out-lived life expectancy. It is suggested he died from a virus for which he was protected by inoculation. Born in the Bronx of Jamaican heritage, he had a glorious, prestigious life with his fiercely Democrat wife. He will go down in history as having been a great general by virtue of the fact he was chosen to advance by Republican leaders. IMHO, he was the ultimate snake they “knew before they took him in.” I will always wonder if, in the end, he thought about his own words as he supported radical Democrat causes. R.I.P. 🥀
“Built into each of us is a little calculator that can make judgments that will never appear on a piece of paper. And sometimes you know something’s right, you can’t prove it to anybody, or you know something’s wrong. Little ethical circuit breakers you carry around inside...so I go with my instinct.”
-Colin Luther Powell
He was George W. Bush’s liberal in office. I NEVER like him. I loved Stormin’ Norman. But, truly disliked Powell. I retired a year after the first Gulf War. So, he was around during my final year(s) of service. I knew officers who didn’t like him either. Many saw him as a political general, not a soldier’s soldier. He was a Nam vet and fought there. But, somewhere along his path, he got politicalized.