 It is located on Ohio Drive, Southwest, Washington, D.C., in East Potomac Park, south of the Tidal Basin near the north end of the 14th Street Bridge.Decorations on the tall urn include an eagle with its wings outstretched and human figures depicted in a neoclassical style.It once stood atop a column of marble in Havana, to commemorate the U.S. sailors and Marines who lost their lives aboard the USS "Maine" when it sank in Havana harbor in 1898, and the friendship and bonds between Cuba and the United States.