Monumento a las víctimas de la voladura del acorazado "Maine
Marble columns and a shattered bronze eagle memorializing sailors lost in a still-disputed 1898 explosion.
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This guide to the Monument to the Victims of the Maine in Havana opens with the battleship's sinking in the harbor on February 15, 1898, and the two competing explanations for it: the navy's own inquiry and a very different 1976 study of the wreck. You'll hear about the two-hundred-sixty-six sailors it mourns, the bronze eagle raised over the columns in 1925, and the hurricane and the 1961 crowd that each brought it down. Look up at the bare column tops where the eagle once perched.
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