Veterans from the Town of Huntington are honored for service in wartime conflicts from the American Revolution through the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. The account begins with the American Revolution from 1775 to 1783, called the beginning of America and ending with independence from Great Britain, followed by the War of 1812 from 1812 to 1815, including the burning of the U.S. Capitol and the White House in 1814, the Battle of New Orleans as a major victory in 1815, and the Treaty of Ghent in 1815. It continues with the U.S.-Mexican War from 1846 to 1848, after which Mexico relinquished territories that became California, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, and a portion of Colorado, completing Manifest Destiny and expansion in the United States, and the U.S. Civil War from 1861 to 1865, identified as the war to preserve the Union and associated here with June 1, 1863, the Emancipation Proclamation, and the Battle of Gettysburg as a major turning point. Also included are the Indian War from 1783 to 1890, with the Battle of Wounded Knee as the last major conflicts between Indians and U.S. soldiers, the Spanish-American War of 1898, and the Philippine-American War from 1899 to 1901, after which Spain surrendered the Philippines, Puerto Rico, and Guam and granted independence to Cuba, marking the United States' emergence as a world power. The sequence then covers World War I from 1917 to 1918, called the war to end all wars, World War II from 1941 to 1945, including the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, the D-Day invasion of Europe on June 6, 1944, Germany's surrender on May 8, 1945, and Japan's surrender on August 14, 1945, the Korean War from 1950 to 1955, called the Forgotten War, and the Vietnam War from 1961 to 1975, described as the United States' longest war. It concludes with later conflicts in Lebanon, Grenada, Panama, the Persian Gulf, Somalia, Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq, while also giving Department of Defense casualty and missing-in-action figures for many of these wars.