Medal of Honor to be awarded to living service member for first time since Vietnam

Salvatore Giunta is to be presented with the Medal of Honor, the highest US military award for valour
The award will be received by Sgt Salvatore Giunta, a rifle team leader in Afghanistan who braved heavy Taliban fire at close quarters to tend to three injured fellow soldiers.

Sgt Giunta, 25, from Hiawatha, Iowa, has said that “I didn’t run through fire to do anything heroic or brave......