I graduated HS in 1982. My history teacher was a huge Teddy Roosevelt fan. He even had us memorize 'The Credit Belongs to the Man who is Actually in the Arena" portion of his "Citizenship in a Republic" speech given in France in 1910. I can recite it to this day.

So he spent an unusual amount of time on the Spanish-American War for a HS History class, which was fine by me as one of my grandfathers had fought in Cuba and the Philippines and returned with a pearl handled Navy issue Colt 45 that the story says he took off a dead Spanish officer. (I still have that gun but have no idea if the story is true -- that great grandpa was dead before I was born -- but it lives on in family lore). I can remember him using the term False Flag for the Maine incident. It was the first time I learned of that concept.