| Author | Message | | dangerousdna | | Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2007 3:31 am Post subject: This is Navy town Y isn't honor paid to the USS Liberty? |
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USS LIBERTY
Men should be honored
June 8 is the 40th anniversary of the attack on the USS Liberty by Israel during the Six-Day War.
As Israel celebrates the 40th anniversary of the Six-Day War, I'm sure at least some of the media will also be honoring the memory of that war, which Israel started.
But who will be remembering and honoring the men of the USS Liberty?
Why in a Navy town is there never any honor paid to the USS Liberty and the brave men who gave their lives in the Israeli attack?
Perhaps it is because they were betrayed by their own government and by the U.S. Navy in never holding Israel accountable.
Even the presentation of the Medal of Honor to the Liberty's captain was hidden away in a warehouse instead of the White House.
The men of the USS Stark fought to save their ship after it was hit. The men of the USS Liberty were under continuous attack for hours.
It was intended that there be no survivors of the Israeli attack. Even the lifeboats were sunk.
But, the men of the Liberty were too tough and too courageous to be defeated.
Each year that they are ignored, we dishonor our own country.
BOB REYNOLDS, Orange Park | |  | | Cowboy | | Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2007 5:18 pm Post subject: |
| | Quote: | | The men of the USS Liberty were under continuous attack for hours. |
False.
| Quote: | | Even the presentation of the Medal of Honor to the Liberty's captain was hidden away in a warehouse instead of the White House. |
http://www.thelibertyincident.com/docs/McGonagle.pdf
| Quote: | | It was intended that there be no survivors of the Israeli attack. Even the lifeboats were sunk. |
False, as testified under oath by the Captain of the Liberty | | | | Jefferson Davis | | Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2007 6:27 pm Post subject: |
| It's more accurate than anything you have ever posted Mr. AIPAC. He at least cares about the American victims. What's your excuse?
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2007 will be the 40th anniversary of injustice and murder and coverup.
http://usslibertyinquiry.com/
www.ussliberty.org
Lest We Forget | | | | Cowboy | | Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 4:17 am Post subject: |
| 
As always, you cannot refute the facts, so you engage in diversion by false personal attack.
| | | | DanielDives | | Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 5:52 am Post subject: |
| Dude wants facts?
Here you go
At 1400 hours, while approximately 17 miles off the Gaza coast, USS Liberty’s crew observed three surface radar contacts closing with their position at high speed. A few moments later, the bridge radar crew observed high speed aircraft passing over the surface returns on the same heading.[16]
Within a few short moments, and without any warning, Israeli fighter aircraft launched a rocket attack on USS Liberty. The aircraft made repeated firing passes, attacking USS Liberty with rockets and their internal cannons. After the first flight of fighter aircraft had exhausted their ordnance, subsequent flights of Israeli fighter aircraft continued to prosecute the attack with rockets, cannon fire, and napalm. [17]
During the air attack, USS Liberty’s crew had difficulty contacting Sixth Fleet to request assistance due to intense communications jamming[18]
The initial targets on the ship were the command bridge, communications antennas, and the four .50 caliber machine guns, placed on the ship to repel boarders.[19]
After the Israeli fighter aircraft completed their attacks, three Israeli torpedo boats arrived and began a surface attack about 35 minutes after the start of the air attack. The torpedo boats launched a total of five torpedoes, one of which struck the side of USS Liberty, opposite the ship’s research spaces. [20] Twenty-six Americans in addition to the eight who had been killed in the earlier air attacks, were killed as a result of this explosion.
Following their torpedo attack, the torpedo boats moved up and down the length of the ship (both the port and starboard sides), continuing their attack, raking the ship with cannon and machine gun fire.[21] In Malta, crewmen were later assigned the task of counting all of the holes in the ship that were the size of a man’s hand or larger. They found a total of 861 such holes, in addition to "thousands" of .50 caliber machine gun holes.
Survivors report that the torpedo boat crews swept the decks of USS Liberty with continuous machine gun fire, targeting communications equipment and any crewmembers who ventured above decks.[22] | | | | dangerousdna | | Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 12:23 pm Post subject: |
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