Oral History Interview with Eugene R. Cronin, February 1, 1972 Page: 83
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might be ten years. Is this something which you and
your group kind of experienced, also? I don't know what
sort of an experience this might possibly be or how you
would classify it, but it is kind of like a future of
nothingness or something.
Cronin: That is the most terrible feeling to have nothing to
look forward to, and that's why I feel so sorry about
these Vietnam fellows. Now remember I was just in
solitary for about three days. Now these fellows may
have not talked to another American for God knows how
long. They're still hungry, and they have nothing tomorrow.
Look at the compounded problem. I feel very strongly
about this, and I also feel the frustration that must
be the colored man's when you take away his freedom--
and I don't mean to say that I'm gung ho to change anything--
but when you put a free man in a free society under the
frustrations of him not being allowed to be a free man--
and this I experienced in a PW camp--I have great
compassion for that. And yet I still like the status
quo, too. But, yes, I understand your point. I would
love to be able to expound on it, but there's nothing
as bad as the frustration of the nothingness of prison
camps or "I can't go anywhere because I'm a Catholic,
or I'm a Jew, or I'm a black man." It must be terrible.
In my little experience it was damn frustrating. And I
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Marcello, Ronald E. & Cronin, Eugene R. Oral History Interview with Eugene R. Cronin, February 1, 1972, book, February 1, 1972; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1529237/m1/85/?q=%22~1%22~1&rotate=0: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Oral History Program.