Oral History Interview with Eugene R. Cronin, February 1, 1972 Page: 87
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Cronin
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dirty. These little kids lined up with just a white
spot around their face. They'd go wash their face in
the horse trough. And he'd talk to them. There was
one little kid that kind of took his heart, so he asked
this kid to take him home, and this kid took him to his
home. Now this was close enough to walk, and they went
into this house. He was a sharecropper is what we
figured out. In this big room of the barn in one end
they had a wood stove and a table and a bed and a little
bed and a chair, dirt floor; and on the other end was
animals, like a pig and a cow and a goat and chickens or
something in the same room. And that's all these people
had. That was the civilized country of southern Italy.
There's no comparison between southern Italy and northern
Italy, but sure we've got some starvation here and we
need to stop it. And the fact that we have people living
better than that family and those people in southern
Italy doesn't mean that we shouldn't improve it even
more, but it does mean that I wish some of these kids
could see that maybe it's not as bad as they say, and
it is coming along and if we tilt it too far their children
and their children's.children are going to suffer.
In that line there's something that I'd like to get
into this record, and that is when we came home. I came
home as one of about five men. That's quite a story in
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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/m1/89/?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.