On July 4, 1997, Gen. Colin Powell, a Vietnam War Army captain who rose to become chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (and later secretary of state), gave a speech to recently sworn-in U.S. citizens at Monticello, an event held annually at the home of Thomas Jefferson.
Here’s the entirety of Powell’s speech.
Whether they produced battlefield images of the dead or daguerreotype portraits of common soldiers, […]
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