[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 4]
[Senate]
[Page 4804]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




           REMEMBERING BRIGADIER GENERAL HENRY A. SMITH, JR.

 Mr. THUNE. Mr. President, today I wish to recognize the 
recently deceased Brigadier General (Ret.) Henry A. Smith, Jr., a WWII 
veteran, for all of his service during and after WWII to South Dakota 
and the United States.
  General Smith served both in the European Theater and in the Far East 
Command. He was promoted to lieutenant colonel and was honored with the 
Bronze Star with one Oak Leaf Cluster. After the war, General Smith 
continued to serve his country in the South Dakota National Guard. He 
served as executive officer of the 196th Regimental Combat Team and was 
ordered to active duty in 1950, spending time in both Colorado and 
Alaska. When his unit returned, General Smith became commander of the 
196th Regimental Combat Team, SDNG. He was appointed assistant adjutant 
general, SDNG in 1964. General Smith was transferred to the Retired 
Reserves in 1970, and continued serving his country in that capacity 
for the remainder of his life.
  I would like to express my sincere appreciation of General Smith's 
service to both South Dakota and the United States and to extend my 
condolences to his family.

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