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"Sam Stone" is a song written by John Prine about a drug-addicted veteran with a Purple Heart and his death by overdose. It appeared on Prine's eponymous 1971 debut album. The song was originally titled "Great Society Conflict Veteran's Blues". The song is usually interpreted as a reference to the phenomenon of heroin or morphine addiction among Vietnam war veterans. An identical surge of addiction followed the Civil War, after which morphine addiction was known as "Soldiers' Disease". The song

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