Harry Leslie Smith, a tireless advocate for the downtrodden who in his later years earned a legion of younger followers through his books, podcast and Twitter account, has died. Thank you for taking us along — we’re pulling for you.” Read more: Harry Leslie Smith, ‘world’s oldest rebel,’ hospitalized in Belleville. He later served in the British air force in the Second World War, where he once again encountered extreme poverty in war-torn Holland and Germany. Harry Leslie Smith is a 95 year-old veteran of the Second World War who saw the refugee crisis at the end of that conflict with his own eyes. “Dirty snow, despair and destruction caked the Dutch nation during the last few months of the Second World War.

Source: thestar November 28, 2018 09:54 UTC