The USS Maine huh?   In the same film in the 1st floor of the air and space museum........where u can watch Link laugh eddie..........u can see the then former pres............Teddy R.......get into a plane to take a ride..............it has been a long time since San Juan hill........the narrator explained............he was referring to the Spanish American war.....................the USA bombed its own ship.........the USS Maine as an exuse to go to war with Spain in the late 1890s.......



The USS Maine was part of the squadron stationed at Garden Key when it exploded and sank in the harbor of Havana, Cuba.James Fenimore Cooper's 1848 novel Jack Tier: or the Florida Reefs, is set at the Garden Key lighthouse. Ernest Hemingway's 1932 short story "After the Storm" is about a shipwreck between Garden Key and Rebecca Shoal, to the east of Garden Key.