{"id":29887,"date":"2012-05-09T13:21:17","date_gmt":"2012-05-09T17:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=29887"},"modified":"2012-05-09T13:37:58","modified_gmt":"2012-05-09T17:37:58","slug":"todays-feel-good-story-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29887","title":{"rendered":"Today&#8217;s feel good story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chief Tango sends us a link from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/national\/84-year-old-korean-war-vet-shoots-burglar-german-luger-pistol-war-article-1.1074925?localLinksEnabled=false\">NY Daily News<\/a> which recounts the tale of 84-year-old Korean War veteran, Fred Ricciutti, who took up the German Luger he says he carried in Korea to fend off some chap who happened to wander into his kitchen the other night;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In a scene that appeared to be pulled from the pages of the Clint Eastwood film &#8220;Gran Torino,&#8221; grizzled war hero Fred Ricciutti grabbed his battlefield sidearm after he heard someone bust through a kitchen door of his Elizabeth Township house at around 4:30 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I said, &#8216;Halt, who&#8217;s there?&#8217; &#8221; Ricciutti told Pittsburgh station WPXI.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m thinking, friend or foe, he shouldn&#8217;t be there that time of day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ricciutti fired once, hitting suspect Raymond Hiles, 25, in the neck.<\/p>\n<p>Hills took off, but was arrested a few blocks away after Ricciutti called 911.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hills had a screwdriver and a stun gun and had lived across the street from Ricciutti, so he thought he knew whose house it was, but probably didn&#8217;t expect the firepower. The police say that they don&#8217;t expect Mr. Ricciutti to be charged. Which is even better news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chief Tango sends us a link from the NY Daily News which recounts the tale of &hellip; <a title=\"Today&#8217;s feel good story\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29887\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Today&#8217;s feel good story<\/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":[156,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guns","category-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29887","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=29887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}