Carrying on his grandad's legacy, grandson serves in 101st Airborne Division

Palm Coast Observer
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Flagler County grandmother Shirley Anderson remembers watching her grandson as a young boy sit on her husband’s lap on a tracker the two rode around their property.

Her husband, Gordon Anderson, was in the 101st Airborne Division in the Korean War. He served in the U.S. Army for two years. The Andersons lived off Seminole Woods Boulevard since 1979. Gordon died in 2015, but his legacy is living on in his 20-year-old grandson, Duncan Frame.

Duncan is following his grandfather’s footsteps, as he enlisted in the Army in 2017 and was assigned to the same division as his grandad.

“I’m elated,” Shirley Anderson said about Duncan’s enlistment. “I think it’s the greatest thing that he’s ever done.”

Duncan’s mother, Deb Frame, credits the Army for helping Duncan turn his life around after “he made wrong choices” when he lived in West Volusia, she said.

“He was afraid he was going to slip back. … So, he joined the military,” Deb Frame said. “From the very beginning, he wanted to be at 101. … He wanted to be a screaming eagle like his grandad.”

Duncan Frame recently received “The Army Achievement Medal” for outstanding service, marking another similarity between him and Gordon Anderson, who earned an “outstanding trainee” award during his service.

Deb Frames now lives with her mother, and the two often think of Duncan, who will soon be deployed overseas.