October 23, 2019
WWII: One Garrison G.I.’s journey home
BY DIANE NEWBERRY
Squinting from his spot in Tokyo Bay in the summer of 1945, Garrison native Ed Boger could see the USS Missouri. On board, he knew the Japanese were surrendering. Boger could breathe a sight of relief. After three continuous years of service, he was finally going home.
“I didn’t think I would ever get there,” Boger said. He also had a homecoming of sorts in the summer of 2019, coming to live in the Benedictine Living Center after an adulthood primarily in the Minot-Burlington area.
Around the same time, he started to get some media attention due to the serendipitous discovery of his decades-old dog tags in Papua New Guinea.
Kenneth Muo was digging into the ground for a flagpole for a new school in Lemieng Village in the Sandaun province of Papua New Guinea when he found rusted American dog tags he guessed came from the second world war.
“I didn’t think I would ever get there,” Boger said. He also had a homecoming of sorts in the summer of 2019, coming to live in the Benedictine Living Center after an adulthood primarily in the Minot-Burlington area.
Around the same time, he started to get some media attention due to the serendipitous discovery of his decades-old dog tags in Papua New Guinea.
Kenneth Muo was digging into the ground for a flagpole for a new school in Lemieng Village in the Sandaun province of Papua New Guinea when he found rusted American dog tags he guessed came from the second world war.
