Luigi59
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Something you haven't seen in almost 40 years.
November 16, 2010
WASHINGTON | Ambushed in Afghanistan, Staff Sgt. Salvatore Giunta
stepped into a “wall of bullets” and chased down two Taliban fighters
who were carrying away his mortally wounded friend.
Three years after acts of battlefield bravery, Giunta on Tuesday
became the first living service member from the Afghanistan and
Iraq wars to receive the nation’s top military award, the Medal of
Honor. He’s the first living medal recipient in nearly 40 years.
Far from the perilous ridge where his unit was attacked on a
moonlit night in October 2007, Giunta stood in the glittering
White House East Room, in the company of military brass, past
Medal of Honor winners, his surviving comrades and families as
President Barack Obama hung the blue ribbon cradling the medal
around Giunta’s neck.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daxukxd3hHY&playnext=1&list=QL
November 16, 2010
WASHINGTON | Ambushed in Afghanistan, Staff Sgt. Salvatore Giunta
stepped into a “wall of bullets” and chased down two Taliban fighters
who were carrying away his mortally wounded friend.
Three years after acts of battlefield bravery, Giunta on Tuesday
became the first living service member from the Afghanistan and
Iraq wars to receive the nation’s top military award, the Medal of
Honor. He’s the first living medal recipient in nearly 40 years.
Far from the perilous ridge where his unit was attacked on a
moonlit night in October 2007, Giunta stood in the glittering
White House East Room, in the company of military brass, past
Medal of Honor winners, his surviving comrades and families as
President Barack Obama hung the blue ribbon cradling the medal
around Giunta’s neck.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daxukxd3hHY&playnext=1&list=QL