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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sal Giunta, the first living Medal of Honor recipient since the Vietnam War, will be the featured speaker at this year’s Wichita Regional Chamber of Commerce meeting. Courtesy photo This year’s ...

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 ...

On Oct. 25, 2007, on a remote hilltop in Afghanistan's Korengal Valley, Army Staff Sgt. Salvatore Giunta repeatedly ran directly into fire from Taliban insurgents to save the lives of some of his ...