Earned innocence: Camaraderie while taking on the world alone is mandatory.

Written in first person this cathartic military fiction comes at us from the boots of a young American; bored and unchallenged with life he joins the United States Marine Corps looking for a wake-up call. Slowly morphing into a warrior he experiences the wake-up call he was looking for. When he responds to it albiet 20 years later he receives the gifts he never knew he earned.A complete heroes journey Earned innocence answers the silent question in its titile. Even if it is earned and deserved is it possible to regain ones innocence?