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 ...

WASHINGTON - An Army staff sergeant who stepped into the line of fire to help a pair of comrades on the Afghan battlefield has been given a Medal of Honor, the nation's top military award. President ...

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 ...

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 ...

'I am not here because I am a great soldier. I am here because I served with great soldiers” These were the words that Medal of Honor recipient Salvatore Giunta gave before he presented his medal last ...

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 ...

With the Medal of Honor, our nation's highest award for valor, we recognize those who "distinguish (themselves) conspicuously by gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of (their lives), above and ...

Staff Sergeant Salvatore Giunta got the Congressional Medal of Honor today, and he deserved it. In an ambush in October, 2007, he, in the words of the citation for the award, “exposed himself to ...

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 ...

Medal of Honor winner and Cedar Rapids native Sgt. Salvatore Giunta and his wife sat down this morning with the Today Show's Matt Lauer this morning to recount the events of this week, as well as ...

Staff Sgt. Salvatore Giunta will receive the Medal of Honor - the nation's highest medal for valor - from President Barack Obama during a White House ceremony slated for 2 p.m. today. Staff Sgt.