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    Colin Powell's 1995 Text My American Journey

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    In five pages this paper examines the life story of an American hero as recounted in Colin Powell's 1995 autobiography. One source is cited in the bibliography.

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    As long as man has told stories, he has had heroes to talk about. Whether they are two-legged or four-legged, they are generally thoughtful and brave. We want,  if not demand that in a hero. In the telling of stories we have determined that heroes are necessary elements of our society, for it is their role to  show us how we might be, at our very best. It is possible that just such a hero has surfaced in the form of Colin Powell. In this discussion  we will look at his own story of 1995, entitled My American Journey. The Man and the Military At a time when the cynics in our society use "military intelligence,"  to demonstrate that part of colloquial speech that is labeled an "oxymoron," meaning two things, which cannot possibly go together. We may have found the exception to that definition  in Powell. When telling the story of the United States involvement in Iraq, during the Gulf War, Powell relates, "One of my fundamental operating premises is that the commander in  the field is always right and the rear echelon is wrong, unless proved otherwise. The field commander is on the scene, feeling the terrain, directing the troops, facing  and judging the enemy. I therefore advised Cheney to accept Norms (Schwarzkopf) recommendation." What he is referring to in this instance is a field commander saying that the Marines  needed more time to accomplish the "prep" work. The first and second Marine Divisions, under the command of Walt Boomer, were to drive "head-on from the center of  the line toward Kuwait City. But first they had to breach a savage complex of entrenchments that the Iraqis had spent months erecting. The Marines would have to penetrate belts 

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