Veteran shares life lessons from WWII before boarding Honor Flight

Nearly everyone who met Bob Smay on the way to his flight Tuesday morning was greeted with “God bless you.”
Smay was one of 22 veterans aboard Tuesday’s Honor Flight departure. The men and women, who served in World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War, are headed to Washington, D.C. where they will tour the memorials built in their honor.
It could be described as the trip of a lifetime for Smay, who sailed many seas as a gunner in the U.S. Navy.
“When I g