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05/16/2008
An Oregon man has been posthumously awarded one of the nation's highest civilian honors after he was killed in Iraq.
Paul Converse died March 24 after an attack on the American-protected Green Zone in Baghdad.
The 56-year-old Converse was working for the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction as a forensic auditor to help prevent corruption.
President Bush awarded Converse the State Department's Thomas Jefferson Star for Foreign Service for his work — one of the few such awards handed out in the past 30 years.
Converse was a graduate of Corvallis High School and Oregon State University.
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Information from: Gazette-Times, http://www.gtconnect.com
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