As you all know (I hope!), tomorrow is Veteran's Day. I will devote the next two days to the men and women who have served, fought and died for this great country. We can all learn something from our military leaders.
Colin Powell was born in Harlem in 1937 to Jamaican immigrants. He found his calling when he joined the Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) while studying geology at City College of New York. Powell was commissioned a second lieutenant in the United States Army, and was one of the 16,000 military advisors dispatched to South Vietnam by President Kennedy in 1962. In 1963, Powell was wounded by a punji-stick booby trap while patrolling the Vietnamese border with Laos. He was awarded the Purple Heart, and later that year, the Bronze Star. During his second tour in Vietnam, Powell was injured in a helicopter crash and despite his own injuries, he managed to rescue his comrades from the burning helicopter and was awarded the Soldier's Medal.
Here is a great quote of his:
"Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership."
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