Cuba, Hot and Cold by Tom Miller

Author:Tom Miller
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780816537464
Publisher: University of Arizona Press

When all the emotional barnacles have been scraped off the Maine, you’re left with a battleship that was in the first generation of steel vessels fired by coal rather than propelled by wind. Design flaws during this transition brought on a number of accidents, including some involving self-igniting coal.

I screened film footage at the National Archives of the Maine going down for the last time and turned the knob to change its speed, then reversed history by making the ship, with its enormous American flag, come back out of the water. Tinkering with the Maine’s role in history has given it prominence for more than a hundred years. Even now, in the second century following the explosion, controversy has not yet abandoned the ship. After the bodies recovered from the Maine were buried in Havana, bones still occasionally floated to the harbor’s surface. Those remains, largely unidentified, were buried at Key West, Florida. In 1997, on the eve of the centennial, the Navy decided to sell off the Maine plot, complete with the buried bones. A group in Key West protested this decision. Some people just won’t let you forget the Maine.

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