Service and Homecoming
Military & Action · fiction

The Homecoming He Never Expected

My name is Colonel Robert Hayes, and for more than twenty-five years, I served in the United States Army. During those years, I learned there are different kinds of silence. There is the silence before a mission, when every soldier checks his equipment one final time and pretends his hands aren't shaking....

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Military & Action
Audience
Adult readers
Chapters
6
Fiction status
fiction
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My Life Story Editorial

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Service and Homecoming

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  1. 01Chapter 1
  2. 02Chapter 2
  3. 03Chapter 3
  4. 04Chapter 4
  5. 05Chapter 5
  6. 06Chapter 6

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