At the White House on Tuesday, a young man from Iowa, 25-year-old staff Sergeant Salvatore Giunta, will become the first living soldier to earn the Medal of Honor since the Vietnam War. It's the ...

A Giunta’s Meat Farms in Middle Island would fill a community void left by a 34-year-old King Kullen supermarket that shut down this summer, a local community leader said. "I think we would be ...

Army Staff Sgt. Salvatore "Sal" Giunta became the first living recipient of the U.S. military's highest decoration since the Vietnam War on Tuesday when President Obama awarded him the Medal of ...

President Obama today awarded the Medal of Honor to Army Staff Sergeant Salvatore Giunta for his heroic actions in the Korengal Valley of Afghanistan in October 2007. "It is my privilege to present ...

DES 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.

WASHINGTON (Army News Service, Jan. 27, 2011) -- Iowa lawmakers honored fellow Iowan, Medal of Honor recipient Staff Sgt. Salvatore Giunta, during a ceremony Jan. 26, on Capitol Hill. Giunta was ...

Grew up in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where he graduated from John F. Kennedy High School. Salvatore (”Sal") Augustine Giunta was born in Iowa. He is the oldest of three children of Steven, a medical ...

Giunta earned the military's highest honor in Afghanistan in 2007 He ran through heavy fire to retrieve a mortally wounded buddy A book about his exploits is due out Tuesday DES MOINES, Iowa -- The ...