President Trump Presents the Medal of Honor
Medal of Honor for Travis Atkins, soldier and father
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Trump awards posthumous Medal of Honor to Army Staff Sgt. Trevor Atkins
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/tr...edal-of-honor-to-army-staff-sgt-trevor-atkins
President Trump awarded the Medal of Honor on Wednesday to a U.S. Army staff sergeant killed when he subdued a suicide bomber in Iraq in 2007, saving three members of his unit.
Trump presented the medal –the nation's highest military award for battlefield valor – to the family of Staff Sgt. Travis Atkins during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House.
"Today the name of Staff Sgt. Travis Atkins will be etched alongside the names of America's greatest warriors," Trump said.
Atkin’s son, Trevor, who was 11 at the time of his father’s death, received the medal for his father alongside other members of his family. Trevor remembered the stories his father told him while he was in the military and said the greatest honor his father could receive was the kind words he's heard from his fellow soldiers.
"The medal is something I take a lot of pride in, but it's those words that I take the most pride in," Atkins said.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/tr...edal-of-honor-to-army-staff-sgt-trevor-atkins
President Trump awarded the Medal of Honor on Wednesday to a U.S. Army staff sergeant killed when he subdued a suicide bomber in Iraq in 2007, saving three members of his unit.
Trump presented the medal –the nation's highest military award for battlefield valor – to the family of Staff Sgt. Travis Atkins during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House.
"Today the name of Staff Sgt. Travis Atkins will be etched alongside the names of America's greatest warriors," Trump said.
Atkin’s son, Trevor, who was 11 at the time of his father’s death, received the medal for his father alongside other members of his family. Trevor remembered the stories his father told him while he was in the military and said the greatest honor his father could receive was the kind words he's heard from his fellow soldiers.
"The medal is something I take a lot of pride in, but it's those words that I take the most pride in," Atkins said.