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88-year-old foils gun-bearing robber (WW2 vet)
upi.com ^ | 7-31-08 | UPI

Posted on 07/31/2008 2:53:50 PM PDT by WOBBLY BOB

PORTLAND, Ore., July 30 (UPI) -- A Portland, Ore., WWII veteran helped chase off a gun-carrying robber with his cane, say police -- who nevertheless don't encourage the tactic. Art Iwasaki. 88, awoke from a nap Monday afternoon to find a masked man with a gun demanding money next to him. With help from his daughter, Stephanie Sakauye, 55, he managed to drive off the young robber and assist in a police search, the Portland Oregonian reported Wednesday.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: foils; gun; robbery; vet
Maybe he wrote, "I have a gub".
1 posted on 07/31/2008 2:53:50 PM PDT by WOBBLY BOB
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To: WOBBLY BOB
Yeah right.

Portland Oregon is inhabited by lots and lots of ideologically chosen people, i.e., liberals. How can crime come out of so many good intentioned "progressives"?

2 posted on 07/31/2008 2:56:26 PM PDT by lormand (Don't vote democRAT, from either party.)
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To: WOBBLY BOB

“a...WWII veteran helped chase off a gun-toting robber with his cane...”

he still has it. (hooooorah)


3 posted on 07/31/2008 2:58:16 PM PDT by ripley
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To: WOBBLY BOB
Japanese name. I wonder if he was with the 442nd RCT? They were tough sons of guns.
4 posted on 07/31/2008 2:58:31 PM PDT by colorado tanker (Number nine, number nine, number nine . . .)
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To: WOBBLY BOB

“Iwasaki” you say?

442nd Infantry ping?

“Go For Broke?”


5 posted on 07/31/2008 2:59:31 PM PDT by sinanju
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To: WOBBLY BOB

A helluva man.


6 posted on 07/31/2008 2:59:58 PM PDT by SolidWood (Obamarxislamism, the threat to our Republic!)
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To: SolidWood

and what do they recommend....leting someone shoot you? Grampa needs to get a gun and use the cane for balance though.


7 posted on 07/31/2008 3:07:23 PM PDT by CindyDawg
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To: colorado tanker; WOBBLY BOB
I wonder if he was with the 442nd RCT?

Looks like he was.

"We were all Americans," Art Iwasaki, 88, says. The Hillsboro native fought in WWII with a segregated unit that became the most decorated Army infantry group in U.S. history.

8 posted on 07/31/2008 3:11:23 PM PDT by jazusamo (DefendOurMarines.org | DefendOurTroops.org)
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To: sinanju
"Go For Broke"

And take no sh't either.

9 posted on 07/31/2008 3:14:23 PM PDT by ex-snook ("Above all things, truth beareth away the victory.")
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To: jazusamo
Yep, that's the 442nd. That loser chose the wrong guy to try to rob.
10 posted on 07/31/2008 3:16:56 PM PDT by colorado tanker (Number nine, number nine, number nine . . .)
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To: WOBBLY BOB
Art Iwasaki, 88. WW2 vet, What a GREAT American.

Too bad some bureaucratic desk jockey will charge him with violating the perps civil rights or having a deadly weapon without a license.

11 posted on 07/31/2008 3:24:56 PM PDT by RedMonqey
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To: CindyDawg

I get really sick and tired of law enforcement implying the heroes in stories like these did something wrong by defending themselves or others. The cops should be thankful this perp is off the streets, and this Veteran should get another medal.


12 posted on 07/31/2008 3:29:41 PM PDT by refreshed
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To: ripley

Some one should give him a gun to go with the cane.


13 posted on 07/31/2008 3:39:42 PM PDT by marktwain
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To: refreshed
I get really sick and tired of law enforcement implying the heroes in stories like these did something wrong by defending themselves or others.

I agree, but wonder if in some of these instances the the police are just doing a CYA. If they gave the guy Bravos and some future citizen did the same and got injured, in the climate today, said citizen would sue everybody in sight, claiming that "the police said it was OK, so they are responsible."

14 posted on 07/31/2008 3:52:27 PM PDT by Oatka (A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves." –Bertrand de Jouvenel)
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To: sinanju

More than likely, but there was at least one other unit with Americans of Japanese ancestry in WWII, the 442 was the most famous however, they proved their worth, and were one of the most decorated units in the War. Hurray for him regardless of which unit he served in. Still standing up for his rights not to be intimidated! More Americans with that kind of courage are needed!


15 posted on 07/31/2008 4:16:57 PM PDT by calex59
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To: marktwain
Some one should give him a gun to go with the cane.

Or a gun incorporated in the cane as was once legal in this country, but is no longer, thanks to liberal a**hats.

16 posted on 07/31/2008 4:19:08 PM PDT by calex59
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To: sinanju

One and the same.

as one ol’ grunt to another, Currahee!


17 posted on 07/31/2008 5:10:41 PM PDT by WOBBLY BOB (Conservatives are to McCain what Charlie Brown is to Lucy.)
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To: WOBBLY BOB

442nd Regimental Combat Team bump


18 posted on 07/31/2008 7:50:35 PM PDT by an amused spectator (Wikipedia: The Truth Was Out There, but it was reverted...)
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To: calex59

He was in the 442nd. You the man, Art!


19 posted on 07/31/2008 7:51:30 PM PDT by an amused spectator (Wikipedia: The Truth Was Out There, but it was reverted...)
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