Kevin Cronin
speaker
2,143 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
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 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.
I would have never seen that.
I would have gone to Canada... Was there a reason for that?
You know, my guess is that maybe they had enough guys already through the lottery.
Billy, I don't know.
It doesn't make sense.
My dad's theory was there were some Chicago politicians who had kids.
Yeah, no, my dad was always very reserved.
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.
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