This sinking also launched a three year conventional/guerilla war on Luzon in the Philippines after Dewey’s resounding victory in Manila bay. Then after that was another 10 year war in Mindanao against the Moros (modern day Abu Sayef’s ancestors) to suppress them. Lots of lives lost on both sides in wars that are rarely ever talked about.
In my family we talk about those conflicts. The sinking of the Maine started a series of events that eventually allowed me to marry a pen pal from Mindanao in 1985, and we’re still together now.