A
section of Highway 98 in Franklin County will soon be named after a
fallen soldier.
Curt
Blair with the Franklin County Tourist Development Council said that
the state has approved naming a two mile stretch of Highway 98 in
memory of Robert Clifford Millender.
Mister
Millender was born in Carrabelle and was serving as an infantryman
with the US army when he was killed in action in Vietnam on March
3rd, 1969.
He
was 22 years old.
He
was awarded the Purple Heart, the national defense service medal and
the Vietnam service medal.
The
request was originally made in 2015, it has taken this long for the
designation to apporved by the legislature.
Blair
said state representative Halsey Beshears and state senator Bill
Montford were instrumental in getting the issue approved.
There
will be a ceremony at some point when the Department of
Transportation is ready to install the new signage.
Commissioners
hope to do the same for other fallen soldiers.
There
is a list of all local soldiers killed in action on a memorial on the
Armory in Apalachicola.
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