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Colin Powell: The Perfect Soldier

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Colin Powell was a very amazing, loyal, heroic, kind person who did good things with his life. He got a good education at a college in New York. Colin Powell’s good education brought him to join the ROTC.
Then after he became the highest rank in the ROTC he joined the army and became the 2nd lieutenant. Colin Powell did 2 tours in Vietnam. He also chose to save his peers from a burning helicopter and was awarded the “Purple Heart” award for saving his peers.
But Colin Powell also made many mistakes in the army and he wasn’t exactly the perfect soldier because everybody makes mistakes. Colin Powell also didn’t earn all the ranks which proves my point. So what is very important here is that Colin Powell lived a very monumental

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