Kevin Cronin

So I just, of all the songs... Oh, my goodness.

Of all the songs in the world that I could have picked to play...

So that, it was like, boom.

It was like, it was meant to be.

And so, yeah.

But it was his, it was, he was the, he's the guy who Irving saw and said, yeah, because they were playing fraternity parties and stuff like that.

But when Gary came, Irving saw it and went,

Yeah.

Did he talk about that stuff at home or... Well, he never did until he got to be about...

like, into his 80s, into his late 80s.

And I was taking him to the VA because I'm like, Dad, you know... Well, first of all, my dad sent me a clipping from the Chicago Tribune

that basically got me out of going to Vietnam.

If I wouldn't have seen this little article, because the draft numbers had happened.

And if you got a low number, see you later.

I got number like 86, so I'm like...

I'm screwed.

What am I gonna do?

Do I go to Canada?

I'm not gonna go to Vietnam."

My dad sends me a clipping from the Chicago, from the Metro section of the Chicago Tribune, this big, saying, young men born between October 1st and December 31st of 1951 are exempt from the draft.