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"60 Minutes" Presents: Honoring Our Troops

May 29, 2011 5:00 PM

The first living soldier to earn the Medal of Honor since Vietnam tells Lara Logan what he did to be awarded the nation's highest combat honor; plus Logan takes viewers to the border area between Afghanistan and Pakistan.

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by Knatty June 6, 2011 3:57 AM EDT
Thank you for introducing us to Sargent Giunta. It gives us guidance and vision in our everyday relationships to others.
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by Hunden1969 June 2, 2011 4:44 PM EDT
Whatever in a week or two nobody is going to care
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by Waldo313 June 1, 2011 7:43 AM EDT
The 60 Minutes show conveniently didn't mention that a Medal of Honor recipient gets their base salary for life. Maybe just maybe that's why the Sergeant is leaving the Army. Why work for it when they're going to give it to you anyway.
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by Littany May 31, 2011 6:52 PM EDT
Staff Sargent Giunta appears to be a very honest man. I am hoping he will take advantage of his rare opportunity to speak, and mention what is necessary to avoid wars, and end them too. People must discuss and then consider various options, not among themselves but with the enemy who is, after all, just a human being.
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by Duilly May 31, 2011 4:59 PM EDT
Hi! I use to read the full transcript episodes all week. Why this episode isn't available?
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by allixb2 May 31, 2011 2:28 PM EDT
Every person on here who wrote a negative comment about this man, or about how the war is pointless needs to get you head out of your butt. I do not care if you are for, or against the war. Every solider that is fighting and those who have died are all Americans. Each solider needs the support of the nation they are fighting for. They are fighting so that others can be free from oppression. This man has seen and experienced more than most of you will ever go through. Stop with the negativity and be proud of this man, his peers, and every soldier who has served and fought in any war throughout the history of the United States.
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by paintmodel May 30, 2011 3:00 PM EDT
A note for Laura Logan and Staff Seargent Giunta, he can never forget, he must now live with his actions that day forever. He needs to learn how to make the best of it and please allow others to know, in particular his current and future family. One day his children will want to know how Dad became a war hero. It is difficult to share but your children will want to know and it is important to let them know what you did and how the experiences changed your life for the better and the worse.

My father who will turn 97 next week was in the Royal Navy serving aboard the HMS Warspite, the English flagship, from 1939 to 1941. His penultimate battle was the German invasion of Greece and the Battle of Crete. He has walled off this portion of his life and refuses to talk about anything related to his war experiences. His children would like to know but he refuses to have anything to do with remembrances. Memorial Day or anything relating to his war is best forgotten, for him it's too painful, for us it's important to know. He steadfastly refuses to be involved in anything relating to the services, even to the extent of refusing to acknowledge other survivors that are still alive. Occasionally when he has had too much to drink something slips through that helps us understand the horrors of those days but we feel sad that he can't tell us what helped shape him as a young man in such difficult circumstances. We would like to know and he can't tell us, as the youngest of four now in middle age, I understand and admire the one thing he has taught us in life, to abhor war and to do anything possible to avoid it.

G.B.
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by whatalaugh May 30, 2011 1:50 PM EDT
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by magnumdr May 30, 2011 12:54 PM EDT
Being a Veteran is no celebration for the men who had to go to a war and kill other men. This is nothing to celebrate. When I got out of the Marines in 1974 I didnt tell anyone that I was in the service because everybody was calling soilders baby killers. Nobody even knew that I had served until later years because I was ashamed of what I did and figured out that I would not get a job if people knew that I was in the Marines. On this day we should honor the men that have died fighting in any war and dont make a big party out og this day.
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by DLC312 May 30, 2011 10:29 AM EDT
HOW & WHEN MEMORIAL DAY BEGAN; Originally known as Declaration Day and first celebrated 143 years ago on May 30, 1868, it was created to honor Civil War soldiers who were killed in action. Veterans and other Declaration Day participants gathered at Arlington National Cemetery to decorate graves
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