Road Dedicated to Former Postal Employee in Dublin, GA

Kelso Horne is a retired Postal Employee from Dublin who was also
a WW2 hero and was pictured on the cover of Time magazine.

More than 100 people came out to Bethsaida Baptist Church in Dublin to honor a local hero. They dedicated a stretch of highway to Lieutenant Kelso Horne who fought in World War II.

Drivers will now be travel along Kelso Horne Memorial Drive.

Horne was assigned to...more the 508th Parachute Regiment and participated in the Normady invasion where he and several others were dropped behind enemy lines before the invasion.

It's not the first time the Laurens County native has been honored.  Kelso was titled a hero on the cover of Life Magazine in 1944. 

Pictured in green, Ralph Garner, Retired
rural carrier Dublin GA attended the dedication. 

"He is one of the most famous WWII veterans from Georgia and having Dublin as his home is really something," says Rusty Henderson.

"Kelso became a hero in this area. He always swore that he was not a hero, that he did nothing heroic. Well, he jumped out of an airplane going several hundred miles an hour in the middle of the night with Germans shooting at him."