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How a PTSD Vet From WWI Inspired a #1 Hit Song

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Moe Jerome was a successful songwriter on Tin Pan Alley and then in Hollywood, but his biggest hit was inspired by his brother-in-law, who suffered shell shock in the WWI trenches.

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