Word: colonels
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...Andrew B. Pacelli ’04, Colonel Sanders means more than fried chicken. He is a patriot, philanthropist and—most of all—honorary kinsman. That’s because Pacelli is a colonel himself...
Pacelli and the late Sanders are members of the Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels, a philanthropic group commissioned by the governor of Kentucky. You don’t have to know how to hold a gun—Sanders himself never spent a day in the military. “[Sanders is] as much a colonel as I am,” Pacelli says. Moreover, you don’t even have to be from Kentucky, although it helps to know the governor...
...hundred years ago, being appointed a Kentucky Colonel would have put Pacelli at the head of the state militia. The appointments became honorary in 1885, after the militia was disbanded, but even honorary colonels are charged with a formidable task. Former Kentucky Gov. Flem D. Sampson, a legend in colonel history, pronounced the group in 1931 “a great non-political brotherhood for the advancement of Kentucky and Kentuckians.” Seventy years later, Pacelli is proud to serve the same lofty ideal, determined to meet the high standards of his office and “throw...
...public opinion is coming around. At coffee shops and water coolers, Powell's performance won high marks. To be sure, there are plenty of Americans like Vicki Pollyea, an Air Force colonel's daughter in Tampa, Fla., who feel "we're jumping into something extremely dangerous without world support, and it has a real feeling of Vietnam." But in the TIME/CNN poll, 17% said Powell had changed their mind. Before his speech, they opposed sending troops to Iraq; now they favored it. "It scared me," said Abby Headrick, 20, a University of Georgia junior, of the speech...
...Recent army reports have Muklis hiding out in the cloud-swathed mountain range that rises abruptly from the placid waters of Lake Lanao in central Mindanao. "Getting into that area is very, very difficult," says Colonel Ernesto Boac, commander of the army brigade based in Marawi. Standing in front of a topographical wall map, he points to the densely wrinkled contours along the provincial border south of the lake. "It's difficult getting human intelligence out of there, and we're not picking up radio transmissions. It's a black hole." Not just for the Philip-pines, but increasingly...