There
will be a ceremony next week to rename a portion of Highway 98
through Carrabelle after a fallen soldier.
On
October the 2nd, a two mile stretch of Highway 98 will be
named in memory of Robert Clifford Millender.
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
Franklin county Commission made the request to name a portion of
Highway 98 after Millender in 2015, it was
approved this year.
The
ceremony will be held on Monday, October the 2nd at 3 PM
at the eastern end of the Carrabelle bridge.
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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