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92-Year-Old WWII Vet Beaten, Robbed

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May 16, 2019US News
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92-Year-Old WWII Vet Beaten, Robbed
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Police are looking for a man who’s accused of robbing, beating and holding a 92-year-old at gunpoint.

Authorities say the man pictured in surveillance images stole the elderly man’s credit card and used the card inside of several retail stores.

His daughter, Diana Brown, couldn’t believe someone would do this to her father who is a WWII veteran and remains active even at his age.

“He held it to daddy’s temple the whole time he was walking behind him,” Brown said.

She said the man broke into her father’s home around 6 p.m. on April 29 on Monmouth Street in Winston Salem’s Sunnyside-Central Historic District.

She says the man kicked him in his back, held a gun to his head and forced him into a closet.

“Anybody that will go into somebody’s home is one thing, but when you go in and purposely hurt them when you don’t have too—I mean he’s 92,” Brown said.

The veteran’s daughter recounted the scary moments.

“Daddy said he could hear him and that’s when he went inside of my daddy’s bedroom and ransacked that and took two of my dad’s watches and the credit card,” said Brown.

Investigators discovered the man’s credit cards were used at various stores. Brown said her father’s credit card statements showed that the robber spent hundreds of dollars shopping at Hanes Mall.

“He went on a shopping spree and didn’t give daddy another thought,” said Brown.

A concerned daughter wants someone with information leading to this thief’s whereabouts to come forward before he does the same thing again.

“I just pray to God somebody will recognize him because he needs to be off the street, and if he’s not caught it’s not going to be the last. It’s going to be some other poor person that’s gone be terrorized,” said Brown.

Anyone with information regarding this case is asked to contact Winston-Salem police at (336) 272-2800.

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Another WWII Veteran Had His Breakfast Paid for by Random People

For the past three to four years, a 95-year-old veteran from the second world war has had his breakfast paid for by fellow diners.

Dan Rankin usually makes his way to the Dueling Irons diner in Post Falls, Idaho, every morning between 8 a.m. to 10 a.m., where he will usually order the same meal every day, according to multiple reports.

“Sausage patties, hash browns, wheat toast, eggs,” said the 95-year-old veteran. “Once in a while I change.”

According to KHQ-TV, Rankin usually comes in to sit at his usual seat either in the corner or in the front, and he usually doesn’t sit alone—he has an abundance of friends who sat at a table with him. In fact, Rankin is so well-known, people who frequent the diner comes up to him to say “Hi.”

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His presence was such a constant inside the diner that people started asking to buy Rankin’s breakfast, so for the past three to four years, a random diner has been buying him breakfast.

There is something that sets Rankin apart from other people—Rankin wears a world war II cap, and as KHQ-TV learned, Rankin used to drive tanks under General George S. Patton during the war. He also aided in the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps.

“There’s not very many of us left from world war two,” Rankin said.

In fact, there is a waiting list of people wanting to pick up the tab for Rankin’s meals.

“Every time I’ve asked if I could pay for his meal, someone’s already done it,” one customer told KHQ-TV.

Rankin told KHQ-TV that there were so many contributions by people, surprising him and other veterans.

According to KHQ-TV, America loses 348 world war II veterans every day. About 16 million Americans served the war, but by the time 2020 comes, there will be fewer than 300,000 veterans left who fought in the second world war—still alive.

Veteran Celebrates Birthday

Duane Sherman, a 96-year-old World War II veteran and Purple Heart recipient, has outlived nearly all of his friends. He was a chief sonarman aboard the U.S.S. Lamson—a destroyer that saw several battles in the Pacific.

For his 96th birthday, Sherman had no intention of celebration.

With all his friends gone, things weren’t as joyful as they used to be. But he had one wish: he wanted to receive birthday cards from everyone.

Sherman’s daughter, Sue Morse revealed that her father loves receiving mail.

“Every day he said, ‘Oh have you checked the mail?’” she told CBS Los Angeles. “To get something in the mail … that, for him … that’s special.”

Morse, who lives with her father in Highland, California, told Orange County Register, “I wanted to him [sic] to feel special on his birthday.”

Thus, the creative daughter came up with the idea of requesting friends and acquaintances on Facebook to send her dad a birthday card.

The post was also shared on Patriot Guard Riders’ Facebook page, a motorcycle club Morse rides with that honors military veterans.

Morse was expecting only 160 cards for her dad’s birthday on Dec. 30.

Surprisingly, the impact of her message was so tremendous that her dad received more than 50,000 cards and letters to date.

“I was amazed, shocked and appreciative,” Sherman said. “All the good comments people made … it just brightened my day.”

Letters and cards have poured in from all the 50 states and over 20 countries.

Thousands of letters are stacked in Sherman’s home, thousands more are stored at a friend’s home, and then there are bins waiting to be picked up from the post office as well.

Epoch Times Reporter Ashok Ramprasad and Paula Liu contributed to this article.

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