PFC Franklin Runyon Sousley, USMCR, was one of six men of the 28th Regiment, 5th Marine Division, who raised the flag on Suribachi on February 23, 1945, and were immortalized in Joe Rosenthal's famed AP photograph. Born in Fleming County in 1925, Sousley joined the Marines in January 1944, landed on Iwo Jima on February 19, 1945, survived Suribachi, but was killed a month later. He was reinterred in 1948 on the hillside southeast and received the Purple Heart and three other medals.