Sentence:  The night after reading her letter about her surgeon uncle - it must have been late in September - I had a vision of myself <WSD>returned</WSD> in ragged uniform from The Front , nearly dying , my head bandaged and bloody , and Jessica bending over me , the power of her love bringing me back to life . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  go or come back to place, condition, or activity where one has been before