Sylvan Lucier in Glider Training

WHY FLY A GLIDER?
All glider pilots were volunteers. Why would someone choose to become a glider pilot? Sylvan was a very quiet person and family tell me that when he left home to join Army pilot training at age 26, it was as if he was not gone. This was in contrast to when his older brother, Lanny, left. Sylvan enlisted January 1942. He was the fourth son to enlist.
FIVE BROTHERS WOULD SERVE
Tom Lucier, the fifth and youngest son of Eva and Delphis Lucier, tells me was in high school when the US entered the war. He would join upon finishing school and serve as a journalist in Bavaria Germany, writing for "The Frontline", the newspaper of the Third Infantry Division. Some stories he wrote, based on interviews of soldiers, were picked up and printed in "Stars and Stripes." My research request to the Stars and Stripes museum did not produce anything, but I haven't given up. Sylvan's brother, Lanny Lucier (Lawrence) really got me hooked on learning more about my mother's brothers. I visited him in 1997 and tape recorded hours of his stories. Unfortunately I never knew Bernard Lucier or Dolly (Dephis) Lucier. Their names are all engraved in the new World War II Memorial, thanks to Lanny and his wife Dorothy. The four brothers returned to tell their story to their children, my cousins. Sylvan did not return and since he died single and without children, I am a surrogate offspring for him I suppose, appointed by my mother.