Natchez soldier injured (Dexter D. Grover - picture unavailable)

Staff at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany, where seriously wounded in Iraq are treated before transfer back to the U.S.

NATCHEZ — Natchez native Dexter D. Grover, 23, was injured in a bombing in Iraq Thursday and is in serious but stable condition, his family has been told.

Grover, on active duty with the Army, received head and chest injuries, his sister Kimberly Grover said, and is still in Iraq. Doctors will move him to Germany once his condition becomes stable enough, she said.

“We haven’t heard anything today,” Kimberly said Saturday. “We are keeping the phones on trying to make sure we stay around them. We don’t know anything.”

Dexter’s mother Viola Grover, who lives in Natchez, was in contact with officers Friday.

Kimberly said the family knew little about Dexter’s assignments in Iraq, but he was out on a mission when the bombing occurred.

He joined the Army shortly after high school, something he’d always planned to do, Kimberly said.

“He was in ROTC from day 1,” she said. “Our father was in the military and we have a brother on the police force. I guess it’s just in the blood.”

A Natchez High graduate, Dexter’s first day in the military was Sept. 11, 2001, Kimberly said. On the day of the attacks he was in the air flying to a military base for training.

Dexter, his wife Rose Marie and 1-year-old daughter Malaia have been stationed in South Korea for several years. He visited Natchez late last year and was deployed to Iraq in December or January, Kimberly said. His family is still in South Korea.

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Note: Due to problems with blogger we were unable to post news of the wounded for the last 10 days. This post is part of the update from that period.