Oral History Interview with Eugene R. Cronin, February 1, 1972 Page: 46
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Cronin
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body run to the tunnel. And we stood there, and this
mother with these two children came running by us. Now
she looked at us and her two eyes got literally, it
seemed, as big as saucers, and they told a story, and
the story was the terrible fear for her lovely children--
she was a nice-looking woman--the fear of her own safety,
obviously with those guys up there shooting, and the
look in her eyes as she looked at us who were maybe a
cause of it. It wasn't a look of hate, but it was a
look that just told me volumes about the lady, about
the kids, about the situation, about us, our relationship,
that the feeling we had that, oh, if these guys strafe
this train, you know, school's out because they'd have
clubbed us or something. But they hit only the engine,
and that was all. And I guess if you're teaching history
that is important. I said awhile ago the only thing I
ever saw bombed was specified targets, and I lived through
this, but if these boys in these P-47's would have strafed
that train, we wouldn't be talking now. But anyway, the
look in this lady's eyes was something that . . . it's
too bad that a great writer like maybe a Costain or a
Hemmingway . . . maybe a man who was a romanticist like
Costain would have to do it, but what I saw in that lady's
eyes was a deep chasm. It told the whole story of war
in her eyes.
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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/m1/48/?q=%22~1%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Oral History Program.