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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 ...

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, ...

During his high school years, Salvatore Giunta didn't care so much about grades, as he did about socializing, according to his parents. But it was during his junior year at Kennedy High School in ...

winner of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, an Iowa sergeant who retrieved a wounded comrade under gunfire as the Taliban carried the stricken soldier away. For Army Staff Sgt. Salvatore Giunta, the ...

You could have torn Staff Sgt. Salvatore Giunta's story from the pages of "Guadalcanal Diary" or an Ernie Pyle dispatch. The self-effacing hero seems to always come from small-town America. In ...

Folks turned out by the thousands last evening to cheer, salute, photograph and holler the occasional hooah to hometown hero Salvatore Giunta, the nation's most recent Medal of Honor recipient. Army ...

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 ...