A Fresno World War II veteran who helped liberate a Holocaust concentration camp in eastern Germany near the border of what was then Czechoslovakia will be honored in Clovis on Thursday. Vernon Schmidt will receive the Honorary Commemorative Medal by the Ministry of Defense of the Czech Republic. Schmidt, now 96, joined the Army out of Reedley High School, in 1944. He was sent to Europe. He entered as a private and eventually was promoted to master sergeant. Serving with the Army’s 90th Infantry Division, Schmidt helped liberate nearly 40,000 prisoners from the Nazi concentration camp in Flossenburg. “I’m so...