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Chaplain badly wounded in Iraq to return to Minnesota

Sep- 2-2004 » Filed Under: 3/2 SBCT

An update on Chaplain Tim Vakoc. Keep him in your prayers.

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The Associated Press

An U.S. Army chaplain from Minnesota who suffered a grave brain injury during an attack in Iraq could soon return to his home state where he will be cared for in a long-term-care facility, his family said.

The Rev. Timothy Vakoc, a Roman Catholic priest, has been in a military hospital in Washington, D.C., for more than three months since he suffered neurological wounds and lost an eye in a roadside bombing May 29.

He is expected to receive a medical discharge from the Army in the next two weeks, and then return to Minnesota, where his parents and brother live, said his sister, Anita Brand, of Virginia.

On a Web site tracking his progress, Brand disclosed Sunday that doctors had concluded that "Father Tim will not recover neurologically," and that he might not recover from the next infection or complication.

The entry was one of the grimmest in a three-month ordeal that has seen signs of progress followed by repeated medical setbacks. The family has posted updates since June on a Web site called Caring Bridge, http://www.caringbridge.org/mn/timvakoc.


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