Coming Home
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Last published Mon, Jun 8, 2015
It has always been Topper McKnight's dream to be part of the US Marines alongside his best friend Arnold Harris. Days before their mission bound for the Japanese-occupied Philippine Archipelago, Arnold meets Elizabeth Barnes, who works as a nurse at the camp's hospital and falls in love. Topper then meets her, only to all for her too. With the uncertainty of war, can the two come home? Or will the raging war decide who comes home?
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