BY MATT MARGOLIS | P J Media
General Colin Powell, the former U.S. Secretary of State
and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, passed away Monday morning, due to
complications from COVID-19. He was 84 years old.
“We want to thank the medical staff at Walter Reed
National Medical Center for their caring treatment,” his family said in a
statement posted to his Facebook page. “We have lost a remarkable and loving
husband, father, grandfather and a great American.”
Powell was fully vaccinated against COVID, the statement
added.
Powell was the first African-American Secretary of State.
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