A SPECIAL REPORT: Memorial Day
MAIN HEROES: The county has numerous war memorials but the oldest, and perhaps the most serene, is the Spanish-American War tribute, above, overlooking the lake at Irvine Regional Park. Sitting behind a Civil War howitzer, the stone memorial was dedicated in 1926 to the 113 men of Company L, volunteer infantry out of Santa Ana. Also included is a plaque made of metal from the U.S. battleship Maine, with the names of four Orange County men who lost their lives when that ship was destroyed in Havana Harbor in 1898.
