Sentence:  The night after reading her letter about her surgeon uncle - it must have been late in September - I had a vision of myself returned in ragged uniform from The Front , nearly dying , my <WSD>head</WSD> 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:  the upper part of the human body or the front part of the body in animals; contains the face and brains