Leo Smith, a 50-year Haines resident and one of the area’s few surviving World War II veterans, will make an expense-paid trip to Washington, D.C., as part of “The Last Frontier Honor Flight,” a program honoring aging veterans.
Smith, 89, enlisted in the Army at age 17, serving as a paratrooper from 1945-46.
Pausing to talk to a reporter this week while replacing a pipe on a hot water heater at his trailer home in…
