Specialist Salvatore Giunta served in the Army until June 2011. He was presented with a Medal of Honor of November 16, 2010. Giunta was the first living soldier to receive the honor since Vietnam. He ...

President Barack Obama presents the Medal of Honor to Army Staff Sgt. Salvatore Giunta during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in 2010. Giunta, from Hiawatha, Iowa, is the first living ...

ABC News is reporting that Staff Sgt. Salvatore Giunta of Iowa has become the first living recipient of the Medal of Honor since the Vietnam War. Giunta is being recognized for his valor in the wars ...

Giunta, who enlisted with the Army in November 2003, said that receiving the Medal of Honor from former President Obama was "crazy." "It’s wildly bittersweet, because it’s such a tremendous honor," ...

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — Staff Sgt. Salvatore Giunta, the first living Medal of Honor recipient from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, has received a standing ovation from the crowd during the ...

WASHINGTON - Defense Secretary Robert Gates added more praise for Army Staff Sgt. Salvatore Giunta as the Cedar Rapids Kennedy High School graduate was inducted Wednesday into the Pentagon's Hall of ...

On October 25, 2007, Salvatore Giunta and his 173rd Airborne Brigade team went on a night patrol in the mountains of Eastern Afghanistan and stepped into history. The unit was ambushed and came under ...

Army Staff Sergeant Sal Giunta today became the first living Medal of Honor recipient since the Vietnam War. Giunta's truly heroic story was chronicled in Sebastian Junger's book on the Afghan War, ...

Staff Sgt. Salvatore Giunta was chosen to receive the Medal of Honor, the military's highest award for valor. He was cited for heroic action three years ago in Afghanistan. Only eight people who have ...

Salvatore Giunta’s mom is responsible, really. Her son’s historic actions in the deadly Afghan Korengal Valley on Oct. 25, 2007, came naturally to a man described by his parents as a fun-loving Iowa ...