Former resident Norm Smith Sr. was among 120 World War II veterans honored recently during a Washington, D.C. ceremony for soldiers who helped liberate Nazi concentration camps 65 years ago.
Smith, 84, is one of the youngest “liberators,” and by his account, lucky to be among them.
As an 18-year-old paratrooper in Southhampton, England in 1944, Smith was about to board a ship to join Allied forces on Europe’s mainland. At the last minute, he…
