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POSTED ON 2.17.2023

POSTED BY: John Fabris

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Thank you for your service to our country so long ago sir. As long as you are remembered you will always be with us….

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POSTED ON 8.9.2021

POSTED BY: [email protected]

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TSGT Paul F. Luce was assigned to the 315th Consolidated Maintenance Squadron, 315th Special Operations Wing, 7th Air Force. In early August 1968, Luce was at Phan Rang Air Base, located five miles northwest of Phan Rang in Ninh Thuan Province, RVN. He had just begun his one-year tour of Vietnam seven days before when, on August 2nd, Luce was fatally injured in what was described as a “pedestrian/automobile accident.” [Taken from coffeltdatabase.org; obituary from the News-Gazette (Champaign, IL), August 12, 1968, courtesy of Tom Kuipers, Archives Assistant, Champaign County Historical Archives, The Urbana Free Library, Urbana, IL]

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POSTED ON 8.5.2021

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"Rantoul Sergeant Dies In Vietnam" (article)

Taken from The Rantoul Press (Rantoul, IL), August 7, 1968, courtesy of Teri D. Barnett, Newspaper Librarian, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, Springfield, IL.

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POSTED ON 5.11.2020

POSTED BY: Lucy Micik

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Dear Tsgt Paul Luce, Thank you for your service with the 315th Special Operations Wing. Saying thank you isn't enough, but it is from the heart. Yesterday was Mother’s Day, but like none other. Time passes quickly. Please watch over America, it stills needs your strength, courage and faithfulness. Rest in peace with the angels.

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POSTED ON 7.4.2014

grandson Brad Luce

Thanks for giving your life for this great country!

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