When he saw you, he was always happy to see you. That is how family and friends remember Brian Smith, a Waterford native and Mott HighSchool Class of 2001 graduate who served with the 10th Mountain Division of the U.S. Army in Afghanistan from 2002 through 2004."If Brian called you a friend, you knew he meant it," said Chuck Nelson, treasurer of Winter of the Beard, from Waterford.