October 18, 2021<\/p>\n
General Colin Powell was a patriot of unmatched honor and dignity.\u00a0The son of immigrants, born in New York City, raised in Harlem and the South Bronx, a graduate of the City College of\u00a0New York, he rose to the highest ranks of the United States military and to advise four Presidents.\u00a0He believed in the promise of America because he lived it.\u00a0And he devoted much of his life to making that promise a reality for so many others.\u00a0He embodied the highest ideals of both warrior and diplomat.\u00a0He led with his personal commitment to the democratic values that make our country strong.\u00a0He repeatedly broke racial barriers, blazing a trail for others to follow, and was committed throughout his life to investing in the next generation of leadership.\u00a0Colin Powell was a good man who I was proud to call my friend, and he will be remembered in history as one of our great Americans.<\/p>\n
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As a mark of respect for General Powell and his life\u00a0of service to our Nation, I hereby order, by the authority vested in me as President of\u00a0the United States by the Constitution and the laws of the United\u00a0States of America, that the flag of\u00a0the United\u00a0States shall be flown at half-staff at the White\u00a0House and upon all public buildings and grounds, at all military posts and naval stations, and on all naval vessels of\u00a0the Federal Government in the District of Columbia and throughout the United\u00a0States and its Territories and possessions until sunset on October 22, 2021.\u00a0<\/strong>I also direct that the flag shall be flown at\u00a0half-staff for the same length of time at all United States embassies, legations, consular offices, and other facilities abroad, including all military facilities and naval vessels and\u00a0stations.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this eighteenth day of October, in the year of our Lord two\u00a0thousand\u00a0twenty-one, and of the Independence of the United\u00a0States of\u00a0America the two\u00a0hundred and forty-sixth.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" October 18, 2021 General Colin Powell was a patriot of unmatched honor and dignity.\u00a0The son of immigrants, born in New York City, raised in Harlem and the South Bronx, a graduate of the City College of\u00a0New York, he rose to the highest ranks of the United States military and to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1060,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=237184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":237185,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237184\/revisions\/237185"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=237184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=237184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=237184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}