Are there any WWII historians here at DU? I have a question about my late uncle's deployment to Persia in 1940 when he

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3. Thanks. I do remember he made a disparaging remark about Persia that my mother once told me.

It's funny because my uncle, once the war was over, retired and taught high school math. At the time I was growing up in Texas he was the lone "liberal" in the family. Everybody else had gone Republican. He was super smart at math and my grandmother inquired about West Point because there was no money for any college tuition.

I do have old photos of him in his uniform. I wish I had kept in touch with his family but he was liberal and Texas was going republican, except for Lyndon Johnson and Lady Bird.

It figures. The smartest guy in the family and he became a Democrat as Texas was slowly getting more republican.