Soldier honors fallen fellow Guardsman with statue
When SFC Gordon Spears does his four-mile morning run in Blairsville’s Meeks Park, he makes it a point to stop near the park’s covered bridge and visit an old friend, SSG Bobby Franklin. Only it’s not Franklin, but a stone Soldier standing next to a small boulder adorned with a plaque dedicating the statue to the late Guardsman’s memory.
3:20PM ( 15 years ago )