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Shouldnt attend this funeral of general powell. >> thats right, wolf. we continue watching the events going on inside the national cathedral as we remember and celebrate the life of colin powell. i was recalling colin powells autobiography and there was a moment in 1957 where he was a member of rotc at city college in new york and he went down to ft. bragg in north carolina, and there were two things that really struck me, and they both happened in the same trip. one is he excelled. he excelled ...

At ft. bragg were not going to recognize his excellence and on the way back it was the first time he had ever seen at a gas station separate rest rooms for blacks, and he said he didnt feel safe until he got north of baltimore. thats a lot to experience in one trip and that was the life of colin powell, excellence in the military and also reckoning with racism. >> well, colin powells life which began in the depression is an american journey with importance to all of us. imagine how hard it is to...

Out prosecuting the trump family which i think is a critically important aspect to this, and then larger issues with new york city policing. i have a lot of confidence in bragg. if we dont get one of these cronies to tell the truth, what actually happens? >> whats your take away. there are people that say after years of all this, if it is not going to go all the way to the top for reasons that are arbitrary or structural, time to move on? what do you say to that? >> i mean, you have to keep tryi...

Sister brenda too when shes in town. oh, how they worried that war might put him here. except war didnt. no, there never was a thought back then about what could happen far from combat, what did happen. all those strange things down south in north carolina. fayetteville is an old town, steeped in revolutionary and civil war history. smack in the middle of the bible belt. but now, cargo planes buzz in and out of pope air force base. all past the confines of the city sprawls the immense ft. bragg,...

>> soon the shannons became six, with the birth of their two boys. and in 2000, david took the family south to fayetteville, when he was transferred to ft. bragg. >> david loved the military. he loved being the soldier. you talk about somebody having a first love or something they loved more than anything. he loved that uniform. >> and the military had been good to david. he was major shannon by now, well on his way to becoming a colonel. and that was the phone call the shannon family was really...

The victim of a jealous lover? so detective murphy paid a call on wilson, also a soldier here at ft. bragg. >> jeffrey did confirm he was involved in a romantic relationship with joan shannon. >> where was he when this murder occurred? >> he was actually working at the time of the homicide. >> in fact, a little checking revealed it was an unassailable alibi. jeffrey wilson was innocent. of murder, that is. he was very cooperative. he revealed every lurid detail. >> back in april, they were proba...

Part—time caseworker as well, its not known at this stage whether she was present in the church when this terrible incident took place. ive been watching the news to me or channel afternoon, quite frankly command msa i have been absolutely overwhelmed by the respect and love, have to say thats been expressed for this man, notjust from people in the streets, his constituents, but also his colleagues in the house of commons and former prime ministers, etc. he appears to be, ive never met him, bu...

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A soldier stationed at a North Carolina Army post was killed and four others were injured in an accident involving a military vehicle, officials said.