Remember When... In Secretary of State Colin Powell's autobiography, My American Journey, he writes the following: I am angry that so many of the sons of the powerful and well-placed managed to wangle slots in the Army Reserve and National Guard units... Of the many tragedies of Vietnam, this raw class discrimination strikes me as the most damaging to the ideal that all Americans are created equal and owe equal allegiance to their country. -Colin the Bush puppet, 1996