In up-close looks at war via videos, museum-goers can go back to the 1775 Battle of Bunker Hill, an intense scene of hand-to-hand fighting; the 1776 New York-New Jersey campaigns; and key battles ...

The list of honorees in this project includes several sets of brothers who died in the war, like Pharmacy Mate Third Class John Ellis Hardy, 21, and his younger brother, Pfc. George Albert Hardy, 19.

The inscription in Don Heck’s high school yearbook from Gilbert Nickerson dates to May of 1961 and it still stirs emotions within him nearly 60 years later.