US Army Staff Sgt. Travis Atkins was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor at a White House ceremony Wednesday for his heroism in Iraq — where he jumped on top of a suicide bomber and was killed saving the lives of his fellow soldiers.

“We can never measure the depth of our gratitude or full magnitude of your loss but we can pay everlasting tribute to Staff Sergeant Travis Atkins his truly immortal act of valor,” President Trump said as Atkins’ family and military friends sat nearby.

At one, point, Trump encouraged Atkins’ son Trevor to speak, and the teen thanked the crowd and praised his late father.

“The medal is something that I take a lot of pride in,” he added, but said it was the words of his father’s fellow soldiers about his dad that meant the most to him.

The Pentagon said that in June 2007 Atkins, 31, was leading a team of soldiers on a security detail southwest of Baghdad when they spotted a group of suspicious Iraqis.

Atkins saw that one was wearing explosives under his clothing, and took the man down immediately to try to stop him from detonating a suicide vest.

The Iraqi was able to detonate the vest, but Atkins absorbed most of the blast, saving his buddies.

“All of a sudden, I see Travis wrap the guy up and he lifted him up and he slams him to the ground,” Sgt. Sand Aijo, who was one of the soldiers with Atkins that day, said at a Pentagon briefing Tuesday.