Former Secretary of State and Vietnam veteran Colin Powell (R) and Senator Chuck Hagel (R-NE) stand at the Vietnam Memorial during Veteran's Day ceremonies in Washington November 11, 2007. The 25th anniversary of the Vietnam Memorial will be celebrated later in the week. Reuters Pictures 20 months ago

Former Secretary of State and Vietnam veteran Colin Powell (R) and Senator Chuck Hagel (R-NE) stand at the Vietnam Memorial during Veteran's Day ceremonies in Washington November 11, 2007. The 25th anniversary of the Vietnam Memorial will be celebrated later in the week.

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  1. Former US Secretary of State Colin Powell (R) chats with current US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner (L) at the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner in Washington, May 9, 2009.
  2. Former US Secretary of State Colin Powell (L) and his wife Alma Johnson share a laugh with New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg prior to US President Barack Obama signing the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act at the SEED School in Washington, DC, on April 21, 2009.
  3. In this image released by ABC, former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell, left, meets with disabled Gulf War veteran U.S. Army Combat Medic Jeff Cooper, in Washington on March 20, 2009. Powell met with Cooper to thank him for his service as part of an episode for the ABC series "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition," which will air on Sunday, May 3.
  4. In this image released by ABC, former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell, left, shakes hands with disabled Gulf War veteran U.S. Army Combat Medic Jeff Cooper, as his wife Clara Cooper looks on, in Washington on March 20, 2009. Powell met with Cooper to thank him for his service as part of an episode for the ABC series "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition," which will air on Sunday, May 3.
  5. In this image released by ABC, former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell, left, meets with disabled Gulf War veteran U.S. Army Combat Medic Jeff Cooper, in Washington on March 20, 2009. Powell met with Cooper to thank him for his service as part of an episode for the ABC series "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition," which will air on Sunday, May 3.
  6. Retired Gen. Colin Powell reads from Lincoln's second Inaugural address during an event to commemorate Marian Anderson's performance 70 years ago, at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington Sunday, April 12, 2009. Anderson, who was black, couldn't sing at Constitution Hall because of the color of her skin. First lady Eleanor Roosevelt resigned from the DAR in protest and along with a coalition of black and white community leaders, arranged to have Anderson sing at the Lincoln Memorial. So in 1939 she performed on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on Easter and sang "My Country, 'Tis of Thee."
  7. Former Secretary of State Colin Powell salutes the U.S. Marine Corps Band as he goes to the podium to read from Lincoln's second Inaugural address during an event to commemorate Marian Anderson's performance 70 years ago, at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington Sunday, April 12, 2009.
  8. Retired Gen. Colin Powell reads from Lincoln's second Inaugural address during an event to commemorate Marian Anderson's performance 70 years ago, at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington Sunday, April 12, 2009.
  9. Former U.S. Republican Senator Chuck Hagel (C) chats with Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel (R) as she arrives to receive the Eric M. Warburg Award from the Atlantik-Brucke Group during a ceremony at the Library of Congress in Washington, June 25, 2009. The Warburg Award, given by the the Atlantik-Brucke Group to promote transatlantic understanding and cooperation, is named for a member of a prominent German-Jewish banking family who fled Nazi Germany in 1938 and found refuge in the U.S.

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