Hines Jr., Timothy J.

Timothy J. Hines Jr.

Deerpark/Fairfield, Ohio

Feather Location: Row P, #23

Associated Press

SPRINGDALE, Ohio — If Pfc. Tim Hines Jr. could have held on for another few weeks, he would have been able see his second child.

The 21-year-old from Fairfield died last week at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., after battling injuries he received in a bomb explosion in Baghdad for almost a month.

More than 400 family members and friends gathered for his funeral Friday in this Cincinnati suburb. They watched a slide show of his life from childhood to high school to his wedding.

Hines met his wife, Katy, at Cincinnati Christian School. They had a 2-year-old daughter, Lily, and Katy expects to give birth to their second child in about two weeks.

“Tim was a fighter. He fought hard for his country, family and ultimately, his life. He was a loyal husband and father and an incredible American,” a tearful Katy Hines said at the funeral. “There is a price for freedom and Tim paid the ultimate price. Now he is in the loving arms of God.”

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 when he died…

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