Oral History Interview with Eugene R. Cronin, February 1, 1972 Page: 91
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keep this thing going. But I would want that included
in anything that I have on record.
I have one last question. As you look back on your
experiences, what do you think pulled you through
more than anything else?
You're speaking from a mental attitude, I guess. What
pulled me through? I don't know. I think I was just
one run-of-the-mill going with the group. I lacked one
month being too old to volunteer to get into the Air
Corps. I think that having been a little bit older
and having loved ones at home was probably a great thing
for me to have.
This was an incentive to get back.
Yeah. I'm sure I had another incentive, but this was
the driving incentive to get back. I guess something
that I swore when I hit Boston was that I'd never leave
this country again. I still get a little perturbed
at people that have to go to Europe when they can't
tell you what Yellowstone looks like. But I think
probably I had a tremendous desire to come home, to get
back to America. When you see the other countries, you
realize what you've got. I don't know. I think that
that and the might of the American Army to get us free,
to free us, pulled me through. This is the thing that
struck me. We could have bombed that Haiphong Harbor and
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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/m1/93/?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.