BARK RIVER, MI (AP)-- Highway signs with bullet holes are no way to honor a World War II hero from the Upper Peninsula.
That’s what two Dickinson County men say, so they decided to replace them on their own. The signs on M-69 declare it the Sergeant Oscar Johnson Memorial Highway, named for a local Medal of Honor winner who is credited with the deaths of 20 enemy soldiers and the surrender of 25 more in Scarperia, Italy in 1944.
Johnson grew up in Foster City. He died in 1998.
Besides bullet holes, one sign was missing a Medal of Honor logo.
Ron Champion found a company that could make the signs to state specifications. Michael Miller, head of a local veterans office, paid for them.
