Franklin Sousley, a fine young boy from Hilltop, K
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Franklin Sousley, a fine young boy from Hilltop, Kentucky, was one of the flag raisers on Iwo Jima.
The above is from page 27 of FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS by James Bradley.
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His close friend J.B. Shannon remembers Franklin as "a big freckled face kid with a bright smile and red hair. A rambunctious young man, not afraid of anyone."
There was that dewy Halloween night when he and J.B. rounded up a couple of cows and prodded them onto the Hilltop General Store porch and strung up some wire so they couldn't get back off, and then treated them with some Epsom salts. "Those cows shit on the porch all night," J.B. fondly remembered nearly a lifetime later.
The above is from page 27 of FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS by James Bradley.
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