Tuck attended a military prep school, attended summer camp at Plattsburg Barracks after his junior year and joined the Army soon after his senior year. Considering he had but the equivalent of a high-school education my impression is that he was remarkably well educated for one who had not attended university. He could be quite articulate, at times almost "painting a picture with words". There is ample evidence of a sense of humor and increasing nostalgia, especially in his later letters.
Copies of Tuck's letters were provided to me by his sister, Lorna Tuck Colbert. I have tried to excerpt from them comments I believe to be of greatest historical value and others that seem to best characterize the man, to show his dedication to his God, and his family, military unit and country and his sense of humor. It is very difficult for me now to appreciate that this man was just a year older than am I. He was unusually mature for one of his age.

After reading the letters 2 times I began typing excerpts from those where statements of interest were relatively short. About 20 letters contained so much of interest the task was more than I could cope with. For these I used a voice-recognition program to record text into the computer with about 85% accuracy. This added many errors, most of which I hope I corrected. It also corrected some misspelled words. I deliberately avoided changing some obvious errors because I wanted to be true to the man and what he had to say. I have otherwise edited to a small degree to make this more readable and understandable. Words misspelled and left so intentionally are followed by [sic]. I treated all in an individual letter as one paragraph and indicated omitted sentences by three or four periods as appropriate (….).