President
Obama hailed the first living soldier to receive the Medal of Honor
since the Vietnam War Tuesday as a modern Audie Murphy for heroically
storming a Taliban ambush to save his trapped rifle team. Staff Sgt. Salvatore Giunta, 25, of Iowa, is the first living service
member to serve in Iraq or Afghanistan to be given the nation’s highest
honor. New York Daily News story here. (AP photo)
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.