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From the leftist Tacoma newsrag, a surprising positive mention of assistance by a National Guardsman during the Mall shooting Sunday: Frank Stiles, a 68-year-old retired air traffic controller, was strolling through the Tacoma Mall on Sunday, minding his own business. He heard a familiar sound, but one he never expected to hear near a Sam Goody store: gunfire. "Once the shooting started, I recognized it for what it was," said Stiles, a former hunter and one-time military man. "I started for the deck, and I was hit in the upper arm as I went down. I was angry."Stiles was one...

Whether man, now paralyzed, could have fired is unclear TACOMA -- Brendan McKown, carrying his own pistol, was prepared to stop the "reign of terror" at the Tacoma Mall on Sunday before he was shot and critically wounded, friends and family said Tuesday."If he could be in a position to protect others, he wanted to be there," his father, Roger McKown, said. "I'm proud of my son. I think he's a hero."     Brendan McKown Brendan McKown, 38, lies critically wounded in a Tacoma hospital, and doctors fear that he might be paralyzed.Dominick Sergio Maldonado, 20, is accused of...