Military Homecomings
Adventure · fiction

The Star Her Father Would Pin

My father had spent thirteen years telling people I washed out of the Army. I discovered just how thoroughly he had rewritten my life while standing in the hallway of my childhood home outside Clarksville, Tennessee, staring at a framed photograph labeled: THE BENNETT FAMILY — THREE GENERATIONS OF SERVICE. There were five people in the...

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Genre
Adventure
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Chapters
5
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fiction
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My Life Story Editorial

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Military Homecomings

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  1. 01Chapter 1
  2. 02Chapter 2
  3. 03Chapter 3
  4. 04Chapter 4
  5. 05Chapter 5

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