Lawrence J. Smith

To Lawrence J. Smith, there’s only one way to do things: the right way. Growing up in a small town in Ohio, where everyone knew everyone else, a handshake was a contract. You always did your best, you treated your neighbor the way you wanted to be treated, and you never, ever went back on your word. “We all have a contract with each other to act reasonably,” he explains, “and when that’s broken, you have to make things right.” Those principles have guided Lawrence his entire life. They took him into the Air Force, where he could spread his wings (so to speak) and serve his country. He...