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Eighty-year-old North Texan James Pickett opened his door on February 9 to two young men. As soon as he did, the men "came through that door, stabbing and beating," Pickett told WFAA.com. The location and severity of Pickett's wounds testify to the viciousness of the attack: he was stabbed in the forehead, stabbed just in front of his right ear, slashed from his nose through his upper lip, suffered a gash across his nose, and was bashed in the eye.
The attackers had the upper hand from the get-go, but Pickett, a WWII veteran, wasn't going to lie down and die. Like his favorite ...