| Congressional Representative Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: California Dreamin Posts: 3,391 Points: 21,555, Level: 92 | Level up: 21%, 795 Points needed |  |  June 8th marks forty years since the Israeli assault on the USS Liberty This day also marks two years since the USS Liberty Veterans Association formally presented its report War Crimes Committed Against U. S. Military Personnel, June 8, 1967 to the Secretary of the Army in his capacity as Executive Agent for the Secretary of Defense.
The USS Liberty Veterans Association has filed a formal
Report with the Department of Defense of War Crimes Committed Against U.S. Military Personnel on June 8, 1967,
by elements of the Israeli military forces.
On June 8, 1967 while patrolling in international waters[2] in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea, USS Liberty (AGTR-5) was savagely attacked without warning or justification by air and naval forces of the state of Israel.[3]
Of a crew of 294 officers and men[4] (including three civilians)[5], the ship suffered thirty four (34) killed in action and one hundred seventy three (173) wounded in action.[6] The ship itself, a Forty Million ($40,000,000) Dollar state of the art signals intelligence (SIGINT) platform, was so badly damaged that it never sailed on an operational mission again and was sold in 1970 for $101,666.66 as scrap[7] War Crimes Committed Against U.S. Military Personnel, June 8, 1967 Live the Light, Give the Light,
Bring Heaven to Earth Every Day! I am not a human being having a spiritual experience, I am a spiritual being having a human experience. The ancient Greeks used to say, "You shall know a man by the friends that he keeps." Given the nature of their friends and advisers, what are we to conclude about the Republican party:
Stop the madness before us it stops!
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