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  • Wounded Army chaplain awaits a miracle recovery

    09/07/2004 5:21:29 AM PDT · by Horatio Gates · 11 replies · 754+ views
    Tacoma News Tribune ^ | 9/7/2004 | NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS
    SPOKANE - Aug. 21 was to be a special day for the Rev. Tim Vakoc, as the Catholic priest was to participate in the wedding of his niece. Instead, Vakoc is clinging to life at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., after he was wounded while serving as a chaplain in Iraq. Vakoc, 44, is a Minnesota native who since 2002 has been assigned to Fort Lewis. On May 30, the Humvee he was driving struck a roadside bomb near Mosul. He lost his left eye and suffered a penetrating head wound that damaged multiple lobes of his...