FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Dec. 21
(AP) – The annual Christmas pageant given by the Fairbanks High School choir at the Ladd Air Force Base Hospital included a group of girls dressed in angel costumes.
The girls were walking down the corridor when a setviceman patient was wheeled out of the operating room still feeling the effects of the anesthetic.
The still-dazed patient saw the “angels” going by and cried: “Good heavens, I’m dead.”
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