Wings of a Bird

Doctors struggle to save wounded Marine - A.P.
The team knew as Higgins arrived in the summer heat that the injuries were bad. He was an "urgent surgical," the most severe category.
His heart had stopped while he was being carried onto the helicopter. Medics were pumping his chest as the chopper landed.
The Marine would begin to suffer brain damage after just five minutes without oxygen. As the helicopter landed, medics rushed him by gurney into the hot and crowded surgical tent.
The first step took only 60 seconds - a "clamshell" procedure that entailed cutting the Marine's sternum and pulling open his rib cage.
Inside, the surgeons found terrible damage.
The bullet had pierced the right side of Higgins' back, searing diagonally across his body before leaving the front of his chest.
His diaphragm had been torn off. His liver was damaged, one lung had collapsed and his right chest cavity was full of blood.
Worst of all, the bullet had clipped the right atrium of his heart in two places, letting blood build up around the heart's muscles.
Doctors found a blue, bulging sack with a silent heart sitting inside. ...