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Esper supports Medal of Honor for soldier's Iraq heroism

| August 28, 2020 11:27 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Mark Esper has endorsed awarding the Medal of Honor, the military's highest award for valor in combat, to a soldier who sustained fatal burns while acting to save fellow soldiers in Iraq in 2005.

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