sentences:  Buckles was promoted to corporal on September 22, 1919.Following an honorable discharge in November 1919, he returned to the United States aboard .Early in the interwar period, he attended the dedication of the Liberty Memorial in Kansas City, Missouri, in honor of the Americans who died in World War I, and met General of the Armies John Pershing, who commanded the American Expeditionary Forces in Europe during the war.