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Winthrop House Committee President; Winthrop House Athletic Secretary/1M Representative; Navy ROTC; Junior Parents Weekend Committee; Catholic Student Association...
Varsity Football; Army ROTC; Intramural (Yard Basketball Champions...
...following excerpt, Powell's story is divided into four chapters. The first explores his upbringing in the Bronx and how he grew attracted to the military through ROTC. The second part details his first tour of duty in Vietnam, a defining experience that taught him lifelong lessons about the relationship between civilian leaders and their soldiers. The third section deals with the Gulf War, including Powell's sometimes heated relationship with General H. Norman Schwarzkopf and why the Bush team did not continue the battle until Saddam was toppled. Finally, Colin Powell muses about the presidency and what he thinks...
...bugle corps played, cannons fired a 19-gun salute, a flyover of jets and helicopters roared above the parade ground. As I looked over this spectacle of color and pageantry, I would have to be soul-dead not to marvel at the trajectory my life had followed, from an rotc second lieutenant out of ccny to the highest-ranking officer in the U.S. armed forces; from advising a few hundred men in the jungles of Vietnam to responsibility for over 2 million soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines; from growing up with tough kids in the South Bronx to association with...
...acting president proclaimed that thefund would not be administered by Harvard,effectively ending the University's financial tiesto ROTC...