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Editor's note: Larry Mason Smith passed away March 29 (see WJ, April 18). His son, Capt. Gregory L. Smith of the mv. Randall D. Chamness, one of many pilots and captains trained by his father, wrote this tribute to his fathers life. It was a decade after World War II, and good-paying jobs were hard to find. No stranger to hard work, he had grown up on a farm in northeast Arkansas, ultimately becoming a sawmiller, cutting cross ties for the railroad. He was a large man with large hands, broad shoulders and a big heart. |