After Grampa returned from WWI, December 1918, and was discharged from the Canadian Army January 1919, travelled across the border on June 10, 1919 at Buffalo, and moved to Wheeling, West Virginia. (1320 Water Street).
On December 16, 1920, Grampa filed a Declaration of Intention for Naturalization, then two days later, on December 18, 1920, he travelled to Howitzer Co., 6th Infantry, Ft. Thomas, Kentucky, and enlisted in the United States Army for 3 years for which he was awarded a $90 bonus and travel pay back to Wheeling where he likely had his physical and received a typhoid and paratyphoid shots on January 14, 1921. He only served for 6 months and 21 days before being discharged due to “reduction of the Army…” at Camp Jackson, South Carolina. He final pay being $142.25.
Sometime during that 6 months or after, he must have been in Adah, Fayette, Pennsylvania, as the United States Veterans Administration have an “index card” (undated) with his name on it.
Uncle Phil wrote to the United States Army asking for Grampa’s records and he was told that those records were likely destroyed in a fire.
Today (March 13, 2022), I filled out an online form at https://vetrecs.archives.gov/.
Update: January 20, 2023, received envelope from National Archives with “reconstructed” documents from the 1973 fire. Sent a thank you letter with a request for explanation of Adah index card.