OT WW1 Veteran

David G

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My grandfather was drafted 100 years ago.

He received this print when discharged, never wrote in the information, I do have his service picture.

Plan to get his discharge info and finish it up.
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I have a copy of my dad's discharge paper from Army in May of 1919 at Camp Dodge Iowa. I have no idea if he had anything like that document you have. I do have his picture in uniform and a picture of his unit. He was no kid when inducted at age 29 in Albert Lea, Mn.
 
He trained at Camp Dodge also, trying to get discharge papers, but read there was a massive fire that destroyed a lot of the old records.
 
The fire destroyed all my records that were kept in that central building, as well as my Dad's. The copies I came up with for me were from the county seat where I had to report to when I was discharged and the ones I personally had when I got out. Dad had other records from a few different places because he had received treatments in a VA hospital before the fire. Can you believe, the gov't had so many valuable records in just one general place. Records from WW l up until some of the Early Air Force personnel. Not everyone's, but apparently a good share of the alphabet.
 
Nice find.

When I went to the SS office to apply, I couldn't find my DD 214 (Honorable Discharge). So I applied to the fed records and it didn't get to me before my SS appointment which I made on the telephone from my home......you don't want to be a "walk in" to this office.

Day of the appointment went into the office with every seat taken. Stood around for no more than 5 minutes and a lady comes out and calls my name. In I go. She pulled up my personal info on her computer, including a copy of my DD 214 and away we went. Took all of about 15 minutes to get things setup and electronic delivery to my bank account. No hassle. Nice.
 

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