President Barack Obama To Give His First Medal of Honor To The Family Of Sgt. Monti

Then Staff Sgt. Jared Monti in the mountains of Afghanistan sometime before the battle June 21, 2006, in which he gave his life trying to help another Soldier. Photo Credit: Courtesy of 10th Mountain Division.

Portrait of Valor: Hero of Afghanistan Sgt. Jared Monti Wins Medal of Honor Posthumously -- ABC News

Killed Trying to Rescue Injured Comrade Three Times, Soldier Receives Top Honor.

Soon after Sgt. Jared Monti died -- killed by a rocket-propelled grenade while trying to save a comrade high in the mountains of Afghanistan in 2006 -- his father Paul found hidden in his son's bedroom drawer a bronze star, five Army commendation medals and four Army achievement medals.

"He never told anyone he won them. He was always very humble. He didn't want accolades. He didn't want medals. He wanted his work to speak for itself. When he was a kid he was never one to jump up and down and say 'look at me,'" said Paul Monti.

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