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Medal of Honor Recipient Giunta to End Army Career
By not in system - AOL NewsDES MOINES, Iowa -- Medal of Honor recipient and Iowa native Staff Sgt. Sal Giunta will end his Army career in June and move to Colorado to pursue his education, a military spokesman said Tuesday. Giunta has opted not to re-enlist and will leave the Army in mid-June, said Army spokesman George Wright. Giunta and his wife, Jenny, plan to move to Fort Collins, Colo., where he will attend school. Wright said he didn't know what school Giunta will attend, but Fort Collins is home to Colorado State University. Giunta, 26, is the first living service member from the wars in Afghanistan or Iraq to ...
Salvatore A. Giunta to Drop the Times Square Ball and 5 Other New Year's Party Facts
By Steven Hoffer - AOL NewsAdd New Year's 2011 Times Square Ball Drop to his impressive resume. U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Salvatore A. Giunta, the first living person to receive the Medal of Honor since the Vietnam War, is this year's guest of honor at the Times Square New Year's Eve Ball Drop. Giunta, who received the America's highest military honor for his efforts in the war in Afghanistan, and Mayor Michael Bloomberg will press the ceremonial button to signal the release of the famous crystal ball from atop the One Times Square Building. Here is a video of President Barack Obama describing Giunta's heroic efforts and ...
Christian Right Activist Blasts Medal of Honor as 'Feminized,' Sparks Fury
By David Gibson - Politics DailyRelated Stories Obama Bestows Medal of Honor on Staff Sgt. Salvatore Giunta Army Sgt. Salvatore Giunta Earns Medal of Honor for Afghan Firefight Pentagon Nominates Medal of Honor for Living Veteran, First Since Vietnam While a divided nation last Tuesday finally rallied around one bright shining moment of patriotic glory -- President Obama's awarding of the Medal of Honor to Afghan hero Army Sgt. Salvatore Giunta -- a popular right-wing Christian commentator sharply split opinions even within his own camp. He blasted the award as "feminized" because it honors Giunta for saving his ...
Obama Awards Medal of Honor to Afghan War Vet
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In a White House ceremony Tuesday, President Barack Obama awarded the Medal of Honor to Staff Sgt. Salvatore Giunta for putting his life on the line for fellow soldiers in Afghanistan three years ago. Giunta, of Iowa, becomes the first living recipient of the nation's highest military honor since the Vietnam War. After delivering introductory remarks, Obama said he wanted to "go off script here for a second." ...
Obama Bestows Medal of Honor on Staff Sgt. Salvatore Giunta
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyIn a White House ceremony Tuesday, President Barack Obama awarded the Medal of Honor to Staff Sgt. Salvatore Giunta for putting his life on the line for fellow soldiers in Afghanistan three years ago. Giunta, of Iowa, becomes the first living recipient of the nation's highest military honor since the Vietnam War. After delivering introductory remarks, Obama said he wanted to "go off script here for a second." "I really like this guy," the president said. Cheers erupted in the audience, which included Giunta's wife, parents and siblings. "We all just get a sense of people and who they ...
Obama Awards Medal of Honor to Iowa Staff Sergeant
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (Nov. 16) -- 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 Barack Obama awarded the medal to Salvatore Giunta (jee-UN'-tah) Tuesday. That makes the 25-year-old Iowan the first living service member from the Iraq or Afghanistan wars to be so honored. Seven others have received the award posthumously. Obama called Giunta a solider who is "as humble as he is heroic" and said the ceremony was a "joyous occasion." The Army says Giunta was a ...
Army Sgt. Salvatore Giunta Earns Medal of Honor for Afghan Firefight
By David Wood - Politics DailyThree years ago and 7,000 miles away, on a cold, rocky mountainside in Afghanistan, Sal Giunta fought inside a hailstorm of bullets to save his buddies. Today, a nation that can scarcely imagine the circumstances of his heroism, or share the motivation for it, awards him its highest military tribute, the Medal of Honor. At the White House on Tuesday, President Barack Obama will award Staff Sgt. Salvatore Giunta the distinctive gold star with a neckband of blue with a field of white stars, for "great personal bravery'' in combat. Giunta's wife, Jennifer, and his parents, Steven and Rosemary ...
Review Roundup: 'Medal of Honor' Not So Controversial After All
By Dave Thier - AOL News(Oct. 12) -- After much controversy over a "Taliban" multi-player mode, vociferous critics, a ban in military stores and a last-minute compromise, Electronic Arts' new shooter for Xbox 360, PC and PlayStation 3, "Medal of Honor," was released today. The early reviews are in, and it's a mixed bag. Critics are divided on the quality of the game-play, but most agree that all the bickering over name changes was much ado about nothing. Unlike the occasionally uncomfortable "Call of Duty" series, this game wasn't trying to deliver a message more complicated than "America is awesome" (or, in the ...
'Medal of Honor' Video Game Still Banned by Military, Despite 'Taliban' Change
By Dave Thier - AOL News(Oct. 6) -- What's in a name? A whole lot, says the military. Or wait, maybe not quite so much. It's hard to tell, actually. On Oct. 1, game publisher Electronic Arts removed a controversial feature in its new "Medal of Honor" game that would have allowed the player to control the Taliban in the game's multi-player mode by renaming them the "opposing force." The publisher was responding to a firestorm of criticism, the most significant of which was probably the U.S. military's decision to ban the game at its bases. Now that the publisher has changed the feature, however, the military still ...
Medal of Honor Awarded to Green Beret Killed in Afghanistan
By Mara Gay - AOL News
(Oct. 6) -- President Barack Obama awarded the Medal of Honor today to a Green Beret who died two years ago defending his patrol from an ambush in Afghanistan. Staff Sgt. Robert Miller of Wheaton, Ill., fought off enemy fire and gave other U.S. and Afghan soldiers a chance to escape, the president said in a ceremony in the East Room of the White House. "Rob was born to lead," Obama said. As Miller ordered his patrol to retreat, the president said, "Rob moved in the other direction, toward the enemy, drawing their guns away from his team and bringing their fire upon himself." He fended off ...
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