Selasa, 25 April 2017

Kneeling to Neptune

On a journey from innocence to experience, a Marine and his buddies found a flash of levity in an ancient mariners’ ritual. IN WAR THERE ARE SOME LINES YOU CROSS AND some lines you don’t. Some of those lines you’ll come back across and some of those lines you will not. Every man who went …

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