MIRACLES DO HAPPEN!
Having been discharged from the Marines for a hayfever condition before ever seeing action, Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith delays the return to his hometown, feeling that he is a failure. While in a moment of melancholy, he meets 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.
small town
mother
hero
truth
confession
world war ii
mayor
lie
satire
war hero
u.s. marine
dead father
military discharge
false pretenses
reluctant hero
hero worship
taken under wing
hero's fall
mayoral election
allergies
return to hometown
u.s. marine corps
honorable