This is nice. Ira B. Matetsky, a longtime reader of this site, located an online treatise about soldiers from the American Expeditionary Forces (A.E.F.) who returned home from Europe in 1919. It was written by Edward A. Gutiérrez and it contains two lines about my Uncle Henry derived from an interview conducted with him that same year…
Austrian-born Corporal Henry Evanier, resident of Hartford, enlisted in the National Guard on 14 April 1914 at the age of nineteen; for Evanier, his time spent in France, "Made my love for fellow men much more." A clerk at Aetna Life Insurance Company in Hartford, Evanier had served with the border service in Mexico prior to the war.
I believe Uncle Henry, who passed away in 1962, spent his entire career in the military. I did not know about the border service but now that it's out, I fully expect Donald Trump to condemn him for allowing in so many rapists who bring crime and drugs into this country.