Timothy J. Hines Jr
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Age: 21
From: Fairfield, Ohio
Assigned to the 64th Military Police Company, 720th Military Police Battalion, 89th Military Police Brigade, Fort Hood, Texas
Incident: Army Pfc. Timothy J. Hines Jr. died July 14 at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, D.C., of wounds sustained on June 19 when an improvised explosive device detonated near his Humvee in Baghdad.
Died: July 14, 2005
Fort Hood soldier dies of Iraq wounds
Associated Press
A Fort Hood soldier has died of injuries from a bomb explosion last month in Baghdad, the Pentagon confirmed Sunday.
Pfc. Tim Hines, 21, of Fairfield, Ohio, died Thursday night at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington. His grandmother, Florence Thomas, said Friday that his wife, mother and other family members were with him.
An anonymous donor has given $130,000 to pay private school tuition for Hines’ two-year-old daughter and unborn son, The Cincinnati Enquirer reported in Monday’s editions.
Family members said Hines was the gunner on a Humvee in a convoy when a bomb detonated on a Baghdad highway on Father’s Day. He suffered kidney and tissue damage and internal bleeding, and his right leg was amputated in a Baghdad hospital. He was having emergency surgery Thursday when he died.
Hines enlisted in December 2003 and was stationed at Fort Hood, Texas,...
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