Oral History Interview with Eugene R. Cronin, February 1, 1972 Page: 74
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Cronin
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wouldn't . . . I don't think you'd eat one. But I
remember dreaming of barely scraping it--and you'd savor
this thing--of scraping it against your teeth and enjoying
it in the smallest amount to make it last longer. And
I used to go back and think of dinner at my aunt's house,
a Christmas dinner. I guess I ate that thing a hundred
times over. The thing was that if you ever got to eat
it, you want to eat a little bit at a time and enjoy it.
You just go nuts thinking about food.
Were you able more or less to keep up with the course of
the war?
Through this underground newspaper, and I guess every
room did it the same. You know, they'd say that Patton
was somewhere. Well, somebody had to decide where that
somewhere was. And I remember I used to interpret that,
and I didn't know where half these towns were, and I
used more baloney than anything else and got by with it.
But the men liked it. They wanted to hear what they liked
to hear and it helped.
Were the radios hidden in the camp?
No, not that I saw. But they got this . . . yes, they
had a radio. They had an underground radio and an under-
ground newspaper, but the place, but I know nothing
about. But I'd read many of the letters that came
through.Marcello:
Cronin:
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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/m1/76/?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.