friend. he never expected the dog to be his hero. boomer was the dog s name. he was a 115 pound black lab. he saved colonel stewart s life when he was shot during an armed robbery. now, retired from the army and currently a mayor in georgia, he tells his story in the new book boomer, one of the unwanted. and he joins us now. great to have you here, sir. thank you. so your first meeting with boomer, tell us how it went down. when they brought him up to me after desert storm, my brother-in-law brought him up and dropped him off, he was so excited that we had a swimming pool. he jumped in the swimming pool and ran around and came out all wet and shaking and he looked at me and said i think i m going to like it here, dad. we became a running partner. he had a thing for water. you d be scuba diving and he d be sitting at the boat staring at you. boomer didn t like people to go underwater. and when i m teaching scuba