{"id":2581,"date":"2012-04-13T10:00:29","date_gmt":"2012-04-13T10:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/americainuniform\/?p=2581"},"modified":"2012-04-06T01:12:01","modified_gmt":"2012-04-06T01:12:01","slug":"staff-sgt-salvatore-giunta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/americainuniform\/2012\/04\/staff-sgt-salvatore-giunta.html","title":{"rendered":"Staff Sgt. Salvatore Giunta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/americainuniform\/files\/2012\/04\/giunta.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2619\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/293\/2012\/04\/giunta-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a>Military Heroes &#8211; U. S. Army<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Salvatore Giunta<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Medals of Honor have been rare since the end of the Vietnam war. And not one of the recipients from the Somalia, Iraq or Afghanistan deployments have been alive to have the iconic blue ribbon with the gold star draped around his neck. Until now.<\/p>\n<p>The White House . . . announced that Staff Sgt. Salvatore Giunta, 25, of Hiawatha, Iowa, will be awarded the nation&#8217;s highest medal for valor for his actions in Afghanistan, and he will come to the White House to receive the medal himself.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2010\/POLITICS\/09\/10\/medal.of.honor.recipient\/index.html?hpt=T2\"><strong>Click here<\/strong><\/a> for the story.<\/p>\n<p>Courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\"><strong>CNN.com<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Military Heroes &#8211; U. S. 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