Tom Cole: “My dad joined the army air Corps in 1940, right out of high…”

“I mean, Mississippi was a pretty depressed. And so that side of the family's been here over 150 years. And they always have lived inside this district. So we're deeply rooted here. But My dad joined the army air Corps in 1940, right out of high school. Then when the war was over, came back, stayed in the service. And my mother had gone to school together. He was a little bit older, but they'd gone to high school together.” (03:35–03:41)

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