Having bn discharged from the Marines for a hayfever condition before ever sing action, Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith (Eie Bracken) delays the return to his hometown, fling that he is a failure. While in a moment of melancholy, he mts up with a group of Marines who befriend him and encourage him to return home to his mother by fabricating a story that he was wounded in battle with honorable discharge. They make him wear a uniform complete with medals and is pushed by his new friends into aepting a Hero's welcome when he gets home where he is to be immortalized by a statue that he doesn't want, has songs written about his heroic battle stories, and ends up unwillingly running for mayor. Despite his best efforts to explain the truth, no one will listen.
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