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The first soldier awarded the Medal of Honor during the War on Terror

SFC Paul Ray Smith defended wounded comrades under heavy fire in Iraq, dying in action; his Medal of Honor was presented to his son in 2005 by President Bush.

Summary by Military Times
“Mission Accomplished” — the banner behind President George W. Bush while aboard the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln — grandly declared that invasion of Iraq, launched just 26 days prior, on March 20, 2003, was over. The invasion consisting of the armed forces of the United States, United Kingdom, Australia and Poland, had overrun the country in a little over three weeks and would soon climax with the overthrow of the Iraqi dictator, …

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Military Times broke the news in Vienna, United States on Wednesday, January 28, 2026.
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