A Kentucky sailor’s journal about his time in the navy during world war two, surfaced in the trash at a Garrard County recycling plant. The worker who found it, wants the sailor’s family to have it back.
Inside the cracked leather-bound book is a story told by a 24 year-old Kentucky man called to serve his country. His name is George Colvin Egnew. On Christmas day, 1944, Egnew boarded the USS LST 1034 to set sail towards Japan.
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For a year, Egnew wrote nearly everyday. Recording everything from the mundane, to what we read about in history books.
One passage reads: “August 15: The war is over with Japan, confirmed by Washington today.:
Seventy years later, these faded stories have found new life.
“It’s just unimaginable– this could have been thrown away,” says John Banks.
Banks was sorting through cement and wood at the Garrard County recycling plant where he works when he found the journal.
“And it was just black, you couldn’t really tell what it was.”
The plant recycles debris from home demolitions. Banks says they go through so much material, it’s tough to trace where the journal came from. He’s hoping someone sees this story and can help him track down Egnew’s family.
“I think it would be something they would enjoy to have, something from their grandfather.”
Banks hopes to show them the journal that made it from Cynthiana to Japan, to Guam, and the Philippines, then back to Kentucky. And more than that, Banks wants to meet the man behind the history.
“I hope he’s still alive to see it, I really do.”
