We intrigue you. It's not staid and stoic, artifacts on the left of me, artifacts on the right. We're not going to put you to sleep. The museum is not interactive, except for a few touch screens in the last gallery and an exhibit where you can hear war-era songs. It's like walking through a history book.
Many signs explaining artifacts are small, light-colored and hard to see.
Even some larger wording is hard to read, because it is on transparent walls over images. Elsewhere, the museum acknowledges it is impossible to measure how much progress was lost by the deaths of so many young men with so much potential. Of the three million men who served, more than 700,000 died of sickness and wounds. Disease killed more soldiers than battles did. Hicks says some military-oriented museums are criticized for glorifying war.