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Three Pounds Origins
Paperback
Series: Three Pounds, Book 2
General FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 17 2026
Pages: 218
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.46 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Five of us raised our right hands in the summer of 1995. Not one did it for the flag.
We did it because we were running - and the recruiter was the only door that didn't ask what we were dragging behind us.
Murphy was leaving an Iowa farm and a kitchen table he couldn't sit at anymore. Rod was following a brother the service sent home in a flag-draped box. Danny was clawing out of a coal town that took men's lungs and never gave them back. Toby had money, a dead man's truck, and a house all that money never made safe. And me - eighteen, one war already behind me, nothing left in Zagreb worth staying for.
Five strangers. Five reasons none of us ever said out loud. None of them noble. All of them true.
I'm still here, so I'm the one writing it down - all of it, exactly as it was.
This was never about the uniform. It's about why five broken kids ever put it on.
Inspired by true events.
THREE POUNDS: ORIGINS - Book Two of the Three Pounds Trilogy.
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