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Colin Powell Delivers $1 Million to MLK Memorial
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Posted 1 year ago by
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 WASHINGTON - Gen. Colin Powell helped deliver a $1 million gift Monday for the planned Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial and called on all Americans to donate to the National Mall project.The foundation building the memorial has raised $102 million of the $120 million needed to complete the project slated for the Tidal Basin between the Lincoln and Jefferson memorials. Powell delivered a $1 million check on behalf of UnitedHealth Group Inc. The Minnetonka, Minn.-based company has paid him in the past to be a speaker at some of its functions. Powell said he has been involved with numerous Washington memorials, including the Vietnam Veterans Memorial because "it was my war." Since leaving office, Powell has helped raise funds for the memorial to the slain civil rights leader. A spokeswoman said the former secretary of state personally donated $10,000 last year. "MLK is a little different - it`s not a president, it`s not a war. It`s a man who fought a war of peace and fought the second civil war," Powell told The Associated Press. "He changed America in a very significant way." The memorial`s design, with a towering statue of King and quotes from his famous speeches, will not be "something that you just go and stand and look up at it," Powell said. Instead, visitors will "walk in the memorial ... and you`re seeing the words of King." The economic crisis will make it more daunting to raise money for such projects, Powell said. "But the American economy will come back," he said. In a statement, UnitedHealth Executive Vice President Anthony Welters said King`s values of equality and social change "are central to improving health care for the people of this country." Powell, a Republican who served in President George W. Bush`s cabinet and was the first black secretary of state, endorsed Democrat Barack Obama in the presidential race. The King memorial, he said, will take on new meaning during Obama`s presidency "for all Americans, not just African Americans. "Just look at the turnout expected for the inauguration," Powell said. 
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