Description
Gunnery Sargent, Perceval Michelangelo Stone, is suddenly medically retired. He is handed his separation papers, because the vision in his left eye comes and goes. Thirty-nine years of service to his country he was always first to step forward, first to go where ever he has been needed â€" until he is no longer needed there but somewhere else- home. With no more people to kill or places to blowup, Stone now has to assimilate with the natives. All of his life has been about living on a base, being a Marine and living in strange places learning stranger customs and strange languages. Handed his papers, he's been told to go home. Now he must face his own devils as he goes in search for who he is. He must deal with a strange culture and people that he has no understanding of: the civilians of the United States. In an effort to find peace, he ends up beside a tranquil lake, watching a perfect sunset. And then the phone rings…
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