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Staff Sgt . Sal Giunta is the first living recipient of the Medal of Honor since Vietnam . Taliban ambushed Giunta 's squadron in Afghanistan . Giunta saves buddy from Taliban kidnapping , but Brennan dies of wounds the next day .