Clinically Dead Veteran Miraculously Wakes Up

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MILWAUKEE, Wis. (CBS Local) — A Wisconsin veteran was declared clinically dead, but then he woke up.
Sgt. First Class Jim Bittner, who served 32 and a half years as member of the Wisconsin Army National Guard, was scheduled for a specialized surgery to clean plaque out of his arteries and lungs. But poor health threatened to delay or cancel the procedure.
“I was having shortness of breath and I started coughing up blood,” Bittner told WTMJ.
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