Kevin Cronin
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 21 Jan
Kevin Cronin’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And as a result, he was supportive and he was, he's a good guy, you know, but I never got to know him that well until late in his life.
And when he started opening up about World War II, the one story that blew my mind is that he, well, there was two.
He said they were rolling through the Black Forest
And Hitler had surrendered, but there were still... It wasn't like all the Nazis said, we're not going to be Nazis anymore.
Right.
So they had a bunch of troop carriers going through the Black Forest, and Russian soldiers were coming out and turning themselves in because they chose to be captured by the Americans rather than be captured by the Germans.
Sure.
But there were still snipers.
My dad was sitting on a troop carrier, just, you know, just hanging out.
All of a sudden you hear, and the guy next to him dropped off the troop carrier.
So he was, you know, one guy away from, you know.
So, but the thing was, what he told me is that they were instructed by their superior officers to not speak of what they were seeing in Germany.
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.
Right.
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.
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