Mr. President, as a veteran from the Vietnam Era, perhaps what I most valued about Powell was that after he made his fateful speech, he later owned the mistake that he made. AND he didn't stoop to blaming or try to flame or frame those who used him, in my opinion, as a fall guy. For that is precisely what happened. He was honorable in owning both his choices and his actions as well as what those cost us all. That had to have been supremely difficult. In fact, to my mind, what so many keep referring to as a mark on his career, to me was his highest point of integrity. It takes far more courage to publicly own your mistakes than to avoid, try to reframe, or shift that blame on others, which have become the tactics of the day. How we show up when we fail speaks far more to our integrity than having lived a life where no great public failures ever took place. Those announcers who keep opining about That Speech are missing the point. And in doing so, they are missing the man. Thank you for your good words.