In the 1960s, an Air Force medic named Jack Smith made skateboards for kids on his base. Now, a half century later, his son – also Jack Smith – is skateboarding across the country in his father’s honor, raising money for the disease that devastated him.
“It was sad and difficult to watch,” Smith, of Morro Bay, said about his father’s battle with Alzheimer’s. “My dad had a very sharp mind.”
After ceremoniously leaving Morro Bay Thursday, Smith and four other skaters headed to Oregon … More
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