“After the panicked neighbors sounded the alarm and screamed for help, you didn’t think twice. You sprinted to the neighbors and fought for minutes for the life of our neighbor who I personally already thought was gone. That image will probably stay in my head for a long time. But you didn’t give up and saved a young life from suffocation.”
An ambulance and a trauma helicopter went to Schijndel for medical assistance. The neighbor boy was quickly approachable again. Positive reactions are pouring in under Mirjam Kroon’s message. “You should already be very proud of your husband. All of us, by the way. In crisis situations, someone really shows who he or she is. It’s good that you put him in the spotlight, he deserves that,” writes a LinkedIn user., Marco remains the man you are. It’s fantastic what you’ve done again,” commented another.
Kroon currently works at the headquarters of the Royal Netherlands Army as a staff officer for veterans and post-active personnel. Earlier this year, he told De Telegraaf candidly about the difficult period he went through. Kroon became isolated after he reported to Defense that he had killed a man in Afghanistan who he said had raped him. It caused a flood of negative reactions. An arrest for urinating in public during carnival shortly afterwards seemed to be the last push towards the abyss. The war hero recovered by virtually returning to the period before the knighthood in his book Nassau Two Zero.