{"id":33077,"date":"2012-12-03T15:13:13","date_gmt":"2012-12-03T19:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=33077"},"modified":"2012-12-03T15:15:31","modified_gmt":"2012-12-03T19:15:31","slug":"living-with-honor-a-memoir-by-ssg-salvatore-giunta-a-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=33077","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Living With Honor, A Memoir&#8221; by SSG Salvatore Giunta; a book review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our buddy, Parachute Cutie was lucky enough to get an advanced copy of Sal Giunta&#8217;s book &#8220;Living With Honor, A Memoir&#8221;. I&#8217;ve got it advance ordered at Amazon, but it&#8217;s due out tomorrow. <a href=\"http:\/\/fromcowpasturestokosovo.blogspot.com\/2012\/12\/living-with-honor-memoir-by-ssg.html\">PC reviews the book at her place<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When my advance copy of Living with Honor, A Memoir arrived it took me a few hours before I finally sat down to read it.  Since I know Sal and many of the men he served with I was anxious as to what stories he had shared in the book.  I wasn\u2019t sure I wanted to revisit most, if not all, of those stories.  By the time I had finished the book it was clear that, while he certainly addresses the experiences of joining the Army and of being deployed in war, this is not a typical blood and guts war story.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>She also interviews Sal; <\/p>\n<blockquote><p> <em>Aside from the obvious (the events of October 25, 2007) what else can we expect to learn from the book?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Sal:        I hope the take away from reading this book is how plain and average I am just as are most Soldiers who fight for our nation.  I also hope the readers learn that service isn\u2019t just for those in uniform; that anyone can get involved at the community level and make a difference.  While those I served with and I may be professional Soldiers we really aren\u2019t any different from any American citizen.  We just all \u201cgave back\u201d in our way.  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So you should go read the whole post, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Living-Honor-Memoir-Sal-Giunta\/dp\/1451691467\/ref=tmm_hrd_title_0\">then buy the book<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our buddy, Parachute Cutie was lucky enough to get an advanced copy of Sal Giunta&#8217;s book &hellip; <a title=\"&#8220;Living With Honor, A Memoir&#8221; by SSG Salvatore Giunta; a book review\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=33077\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Living With Honor, A Memoir&#8221; by SSG Salvatore Giunta; a book review<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[164],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}