Last year, on Easter Sunday, soldier Brendan Marrocco was driving in Iraq with his best friend Michael Anaya when their military vehicle tripped a roadside bomb.
Anaya was killed instantly, and both of Marrocco's arms and legs were blown off. The carotid artery in his neck was severed.
“That alone should have killed me,” Marracco told CBS News.
But in a strange twist of fate, he hardly bled at all from his injuries: the bomb was so hot that it instantly cauterized his wounds, saving his life.
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