In case you hadn't heard...

So I've decided to include in this blog little news tidbits and such that most people don't hear about the military and especially about chaplains/catholics in the military. Most of these can be linked back to http://www.catholicmil.org

This is the first of such entries.

Franciscan Priest Survives IED
In July, CH (LTC) Michael Travaglione was traveling on a patrol with 1st Armored Division when his HMMWV struck and detonated an IED. His immediate response as reported by his assistant: “Chaplain T was like ‘Wow, that was exciting!’ with a big smile on his face.”
An interesting sidenote--Chaplain Travaglione operates out of COB Speicher, where I am supposed to be headed in just a few months.

Fr. Timothy Vakoc
A priest who was injured by an IED on the 12th anniversary of his priesthood is the only chaplain casualty of the war in Iraq. He suffered severe brain damage from the blast and was expected to remain a paraplegic the rest of his life. Slowly he has shown miraculous recovery. This website follows his story.


Its late here and I am just procrastinating from sleep as usual, so I will limit myself to these two for the moment. I'll post more when I have time...