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Article: Parents talk about lost Marine son; Iraq veteran haunted by war.(LOCAL NEWS)
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- Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)
- Article date:
- March 28, 2007
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Byline: Jean Laquidara Hill
PAXTON - Joyce and Kevin Lucey worried every day while their son, U.S. Marine Corps Reservist Jeffrey M. Lucey, was serving in Iraq.
He had enlisted in the Marines in 1999 when he was 18 years old. His unit was eventually activated and sent to Iraq.
Mrs. Lucey coped by drawing on the support of close friends and family and by watching television news constantly, sometimes scanning three stations at a time. News that a U.S. Marine had been wounded or killed started the 12-hour fright clock, too familiar to military families. She listened and watched the driveway to see if someone from the military was coming to her ...