CNN The Funeral of Colin Powell November 5, 2021 17:00:00
At peace. the last night of his life i walked in to see him. now he was the one lying in an icu bed. he could not see or speak to me. so i took his hand just as he had taken mine decades before, and i knew everything was not going to be okay. i wanted him to be at peace, but, again, i felt my father's love in that hand. that hand that took my mother's hand in matrimony, that hand that held me as baby, that hand that signed report cards, tossed baseballs and fixed old cars, that hand that signed treaties and war orders, saluted service