Anderson said he had a core group of friends in school but wasn’t into sports like basketball or football, but enjoyed outdoor sports like fishing and hunting.Īnderson asked her son after his 2020 retirement if he would ever come back to live in Minnesota. He was an adventurous kid who did really well in school. When he went into the military, you know, that took up a lot of his time, but in his spare time, he developed a love for ocean fishing.” “So he really just took advantage of living in central Minnesota and everything that it had to offer. “When he lived here in Minnesota, he did all the fishing things and was also a hunter,” Anderson said. She said he always made it back from his tours, even though some of his fellow soldiers did not. And then in 2001, right after 9/11, he was sent to Afghanistan. “Joe was just really drawn in by everything the recruiter said, and he said, ‘Mom, I think this is what I need to do,’” Anderson said.Īnderson said after earning his GED certificate in 1996, Johnson left Brainerd at 19 to join the Army and within a few years, he was one of the youngest to go through the training for special forces. When Johnson was 18 years old, a recruiter came to his house to talk to his older brother. Army Special Forces soldier who served for 24 years with tours in Afghanistan and South America. Johnson or obtain information on his whereabouts.”Īnderson’s belief in her son finding a way to survive all these months goes back to how he spent much of his adult life. “The Portuguese authorities conducted an examination of the vessel and a search of the area and were unable to locate Mr. “The condition of the vessel showed heavy barnacle and algae buildup indicative of the vessel having been capsized and/or on shore for an unknown extended period of time,” according to the case information. According to the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System listing on Johnson, the Carolina Beach Police Department received information June 21 from authorities in São Jorge about the 19-foot 2006 Marine Clearwater boat. São Jorge is one of nine volcanic islands in the Azores, located about 870 miles off the coast of Portugal in the Atlantic Ocean. No more information about Johnson’s disappearance emerged, until the discovery of his boat last month. 22 and the last ping from his cellphone came from off the coast of Bald Head Island at 5:17 p.m. Video surveillance confirms the boat leaving the marina Nov. Coast Guard searched nearly 7,500 square miles in November of 2021 for Johnson, but the search was called off when no new information was found. “And so I knew exactly what (the Coast Guard lieutenant) was doing.” You know that we’ve done everything we can and now just say your goodbyes.’ We ease the family in as gently as we can. And let them kind of see it in their mind and arrive at the answer themselves without saying, ‘Hey, we need to pull the plug. Before we take somebody off a ventilator, we kind of walk them through what we’ve done, and where the patient is with the diagnosis and prognosis. “Then, three days later, I knew it was coming, because I’m an RN (registered nurse), and I worked in the intensive critical care unit at the hospital for 17 years.
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“The Coast Guard called me every four hours to update me on what was going on,” Anderson said. 22, 2021, for a day of fishing on the open water, as he often did, but unlike all his previous trips, he has yet to return, Anderson said. Johnson left the Federal Point Yacht Club marina in North Carolina Nov. And we’re Christians, we’re believers and so we’ve got people all around the world praying for Joe.” “We’ve been saying all along that we’re believing a miraculous rescue. “All we’re doing right now is waiting, waiting for Joe’s return,” Anderson said. She is confident he will be found alive as he has the will and training to do just that. With Johnson’s boat being found, Anderson said she received an outpouring of support as she continues to search for her son, the second of four boys and the father of a 15-year-old. When I saw that text, on Thanksgiving weekend, I just fell to the floor, because I just knew something happened.” “This text from her said that Joe had gone off fishing five days ago and hadn’t come back. “I got a text from his ex-wife saying that the police had come to her house and were asking her if she knew where Joe was,” Anderson said during a phone interview Thursday, June 30. That day, Johnson did not show up for a previously arranged fishing trip with a friend, said Mary Kay Anderson, Johnson’s mother. That boat belonged to 44-year-old Joseph Matthew Johnson, who grew up in the Brainerd lakes area and was reported missing Nov. A boat washed ashore June 21 on the small island of São Jorge, some 2,700 miles across the ocean from its launch in North Carolina seven months earlier.
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