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Double Tap by Steve Martini Critical Mass by Steve Martini If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Ship Me Home by Tim O'Brien The Green Mile by Stephen King The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris Gods and Generals by Jeff Shaara Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, #1) separate by Stephen King The Great Deluge by Douglas Brinkley Gone For Soldiers by Jeff Shaara Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
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“Life is a memory, and then it is nothing.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Crossing
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