Oral History Interview with Eugene R. Cronin, February 1, 1972 Page: 85
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Marcello:I would gather you knew what a person was really like.
Yes, and you knew what his brothers were like, and . .
but you also . . . most of them with a couple of
exceptions would compensate and not let their worst
parts show. A jealous individual is a jealous individual
if he's in a PW camp or sitting in a cocktail lounge with
everything going for him. So the little petty things
come out. I never saw a fist fight in camp. I saw
arguments.
How about stealing?
No. I think there was some stealing once but, no, we
didn't have any problems. I think that the American
soldier of that war, if all of this research is put
together . . . and many years from now they're going
to read about it as being a pretty damn fine upright
hell-raiser that maybe came home and tried to do too
much for his family, and maybe he didn't take care of
things as much as the previous generation, but the fact
that he was so good he let it get a little bit too
liberal maybe. I don't know but I think that history
will prove them to be a real bunch of fine guys.
From all my interviews, I get the impression that those
who survived are what I like to call tough men. Do you
think that's a fair characterization?
Yeah, I don't know about the word tough, but I guess they'dCronin:
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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/m1/87/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Oral History Program.