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Colin Powell has passed

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DrEntropy

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Read his autobiography when it came out. He did his own work on the family Volvo back-when, wrote about tuning the SU's.

Remarkable career, remarkable guy.
 
And a man I respected.
 
DrEntropy said:
Read his autobiography when it came out. He did his own work on the family Volvo back-when, wrote about tuning the SU's.

Remarkable career, remarkable guy.
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Ditto, I have his "My American Story" in the rack. Respected his journey and his service.
 
I admired him long before I was mature enough to pay attention to the news. He transcended it. (Am I mis-remembering that even SNL never satirized him?)

All of the TV remembrances mention that he was the son of immigrants, which I had never heard before. None of them are saying what country they left. For those of us who don't have his book, I looked it up online: According to Wiki, his parents came from Jamaica and both of them were of mixed Scottish and Jamaican ancestry.
 
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