Tributes
This Memorial Page Established by-Hank Lieurance
In Honor Of SSG Victor Patric Lieurance
What you are doing is incredibly generous and admirable. I would like to submit a memorial for my
brother SSG Victor Patric Lierance
“Sgt. Victoir P. Lieurance, 34, died in Samarra, Iraq, while conducting patrol operations an
improvised explosive device detonated near his HMMWV. He was assigned to the Army National
Guard’s 3rd Squadron, 278th Armored Cavalry Regiment, Sparta, Tennessee. Died on August 22,
2005. His family has a strong military background – his father,  Andre Lieurance served 26 years in
the Navy, his mother Karen served 20 years in the Navy, and is sister, Jonette Owens, served 8
years in the Army.”
Victoir Lieurance was a professional. His name floated through the ranks in Tennessee’s National
Guard as the best of the best Bradley guys in the state. He was no stranger to war.
After serving in the Gulf War in the 90s, fate found Vic back in Iraq in 2004-2005.
A father, husband and son of a Naval family, Vic never shrugged his calling, deploying in the
summer of 2004 to serve with Knife Troop at FOB O’Ryan in Iraq’s triangle of death.
His sense of humor, which some would argue bordered on the absurb, was found on a daily basis as
he patted his fellow comrades on the rear and called them “honey.” He was well known by his
captain as an almost constant planner of pranks during those times he was inside the wire.
Beyond his antics was a man who loved his family. As he sat outside the bunker the night before his
death, he talked about his recent leave back in the United States, and longed for the day he would
rejoin his wife and children.
If there was anything he’d like to have seen in Iraq, it was camels. But there had never been any
time for that – not during the Gulf War and not during Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Minutes before his death on 22 AUG 2005, a herd of camels crossed the road in front of his patrol.
Hundreds of them – including some rare white camels, seemed to come out to greet Vic Lieurance
and the other soldiers.
Then-Staff Sgt. John McCullouch will never forget his words to Vic that day.
“Here’s your camels, Vic.”
Henri “Hank” Lieurance

December 09, 2011
John Toadlena
Thanks for the memories and the privilege of knowing him, and being my gunner for that period I
was in Ft. Hood from 1995 to 1998.  There were some times where I can still imagine him sitting on
the front of the bradley, sitting, smoking a cigarette, and laughing with the guys.  With Ssg. Williams
calling him "low-rance".  I and my wife that he had met will always keep him in our prayers.  Oh yeah,
I will also remember the words that he said to me "Navajo, Navajo, just as the movie Young Guns".
Staff Sgt. Victoir P. Lieurance
United States Army
KIA 22 August 2005, Iraq
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34, of Seymour, Tenn.; assigned to the 3rd Squadron, 278th Armored Cavalry Regiment,
Tennessee National Guard, Sparta, Tenn., killed Aug. 22 when an improvised explosive device
detonated near his Humvee during patrol operations in Samarra, Iraq.