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Chapter 1 | Chapter 2

• Bull Meecham is partying with his military buddies when he gets into an altercation with a Navy officer with whom he has had trouble in the past.

• Bull is threatened with a conduct report that could end his career, but his commander is an old friend who promises to make the report disappear.

• Bull's children are waiting for him to come home with mixed feelings. The children love their father, but are weary of his violent side.

• Bull's wife is a strong woman who understands her children's fear of their father, but is insistent that he has changed and things will be different.

Chapter 3 | Chapter 4

• A month after Bull's return, the Meecham family prepares to move to South Carolina. The grandmother and mother both plead with the children to behave during the road trip.

• Bull informs his eldest son, Ben, that he will join the Marines...

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