Kevin Cronin

Because, you know, back home, everyone was like, yeah, USA, let's go, we're patriotic.

The women are, you know, in a factory making bullets and, you know, whatever.

But it wasn't a movie, as you say.

It was horrifying what was going on over there.

And they didn't want... My dad wasn't allowed to write a letter home to share his feelings about what was going on over there.

So he became, I think, very closed off emotionally.

Totally.

You're right on the money.

I mean, you know, my generation, I mean, I was 12 years old when The Beatles came on The Ed Sullivan Show.

You know, so, and then the liberation that was, it was boiling under, as you say, from all the repressed feelings, but The Beatles frickin' blew the lid off.

She was a social worker, yes.

She was for Catholic Charities, it was called.

She was a caseworker.

And to her credit, I mean, she was an amazing woman.

She graduated from Mundelein University.

So to be her age, female, and have a college degree,

That was some serious... That's fairly unusual for the times.

It really was.

And so she would go into prospective adoptive homes unannounced to kind of... Because everybody puts their best foot forward when they want to adopt a kid.

But she was a surprise attack person.