This article: A veteran of World War I, Thomas Holmes, struggles to make his way in civilian life in almost every way imaginable.  In the opening scene of the movie, Tom and his friend are on a mission to gather intelligence by capturing a German soldier.  Tom's friend, the banker's son Roger Winston, in terror, refuses to leave the shell hole so Tom volunteers to go alone.
He captures a German but is apparently killed; in fact, he has only been wounded, and the Germans take him to their hospital to recover.  His friend Roger Winston returns to the safety of American lines with the captured German soldier and is rewarded with a medal for it; his feeble efforts to refuse credit are dismissed as modesty, and he comes home a decorated hero. During Tom's captivity, German doctors treat his pain with morphine and he becomes addicted to the drug.  After Tom returns from the war, Roger offers him a job at his father's bank out of shame. contains an answer for the question: What is the first name of the person who is taken to a German hospital?, what is it ?


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