Powell Remarks Spotlights Fallen Troop

Powell Remarks Spotlights Fallen Troop
October 21, 2008
Mclatchy -Tribune News Service

Feroze Khan was working Sunday morning when the calls began. Friends and family members were watching Colin Powell's appearance on NBC's "Meet the Press" when something unexpected happened.

The retired general and former secretary of state spoke of a moving photo of a mother grieving over her son's headstone at Arlington National Cemetery.

The deceased was Kareem Rashad Sultan Khan, a 20-year-old corporal who was deployed with a Fort Lewis-based Stryker brigade when he died last year in Iraq.

Powell's words caught Feroze Khan, Kareem's father, by total surprise.

"I knew nothing about it at the time," the New Jersey resident told The News Tribune on Monday. "But I'm quite grateful to Gen. Powell about what he said about my son. Now I'm sure a lot more people are aware of the sacrifice Kareem made."


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