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Troy Howard, of Denver, North Carolina, may be 71, but the fact that he was a U.S. Marine in his youth is still evident. When his wife, Becky, woke him up at 3 a.m. on June 9 after hearing glass break--which he couldn't hear because as a Marine, a grenade blast damaged his hearing--he grabbed his double-barrel shotgun and got ready to counterattack. As his wife hid in a closet and locked the door, he stood behind the bedroom door and waited for the intruder to try to enter the room. He told the Charlotte Observer, "I didn't know how many people were out there. But I wasn't going to let them come in and kill me and my wife. I was standing like a Marine ready to charge."
When an intruder pushed the bedroom door open, Howard slammed the door back shut, and he then pressed the business-end of the shotgun against the bedroom door ...