Cuban Friendship Urn at East Potomac Park in June 2009
Text of plaques reads:
Esta copa fué esculpida de un fragmento de la columna de mármol del monumento a las víctimas del "Maine" ericido en la ciudad de La Habana. Cuya columna fué derribada por el ciclón de 20 de Octubre de 1926.
[English: This urn was sculpted from a fragment of the marble column from the Monument to the Victims of the USS "Maine" erected in the city of Havana. The column was toppled by the hurricane of October 20, 1926.]
El recuerdo del "Maine" tendrá eterna duración durante los siglos los lazos de la amistad entre la tierra de Cuba y la tierra de los Estados Unidos de Norte América. --Gerardo Machado
[English: The memory of the USS "Maine" will last forever through the centuries as will the bonds of friendship between the land of Cuba and the land of the United States of America. --Gerardo Machado]
Cuban Friendship Urn.
38°52'42.7"N, 77°2'17.8"W
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