USS Liberty Remembrance Day petition drive - DeLand, FL

Attached is the flyer for this year’s USS Liberty Remembrance Day petition drive and public information tabling. It will be held at 12 Noon on Friday, June 7th at the Volusia County Administrative Center, 123 W. Indiana Avenue, DeLand, FL. Please pass on the flyer to others if you would. Thanks so much.

“Never before in the history of the United States Navy has a Navy Board of Inquiry ignored the testimony of American military eyewitnesses and taken, on faith, the word of their attackers.” – Dr. Richard Kiepfer, Captain, Medical Corps, USS Liberty Survivor, Silver Star, Purple Heart

Download the flyer here:

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Interviews of Interest:

Monday, May 27, 2024

Ernie Gallo, USS Liberty Survivor

Palm Coast survivor of 1967 attack on USS Liberty by Israel leads call for investigation

Ernie Gallo is a past president of the USS Liberty Veterans Association

He is a former Communications Technician, Second Class in the Navy Reserve.

Following his active duty with the U.S. Navy Gallo had a 28-and-a-half year career with the CIA supporting U.S. communications around the world.

Gallo is the author of the 2013 book, Liberty Injustices: A Survivor’s Account of American Bigotry

On a bright, sunny day, June 8, 1967, the USS Liberty, a U.S. Navy Intelligence ship was sailing off the coast of the Sinai Peninsula. The Israeli/Arab 6 Day War had begun three days earlier. Without warning, our ally’s IDF (Israeli Defense Force) aircraft and torpedo boats deliberately attacked, killing 34 United States Americans (31 sailors, 2 marines, and 1 NSA civilian) and wounding 174 – two thirds of the crew were either killed or wounded. Carrying the scars of this attack would be bad enough, but learning of a United States and Israeli government cover-up of the facts of the attack has added insult to injury for the brave men who survived this attack. Add in bigotry and prejudice toward the USS Liberty survivors because of their quest to reveal the truth of the events of that fateful day, you cannot read this book without feeling a deep-seated rage at what governments will do to protect their interests – even to the point of wronging the very protectors of their nation.

Listen here: May 27, 2024 (hour 2)

Tuesday, May 28, 2024 USS Liberty survivor Phil Tourney joins to give his personal eyewitness testimony of the attack that took place on June 8th, 1967 and the following cover-up by the US government.

Phil enlisted in the U. S. Navy in February 1964. He served two tours on the USS Mauna Kea in the waters off Vietnam, then transferred to the USS Liberty, where he served three more tours. In June 1967, he was aboard the Liberty as a petty officer third class when the ship came under attack by Israeli aircraft and torpedo boats in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. For his actions that day, he received a Bronze Star with “V” Device and a Purple Heart. Since then, Phil has published three books about the attack on the USS Liberty. He is currently serving as the President of the USS Liberty Veterans Association. Today Phil discusses the events of June 8, 1967 and their aftermath, and the cover up that soon followed from both the U.S. and Israeli governments. Phil is the current USS Liberty Veterans Association president.

Listen here: May 28, 2024 (hour 2)