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Her sister, lieutenant colonel maria biank, was deployed to iraq in 2009. I first heard about the book when i was researching the 2002 fort bragg murders of teresa nieves, jennifer wright, marilyn griffin, andrea floyd and major david shannon. This is a true story about what happened when real life. The unwritten code of military marriage ebook written by tanya biank.

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