The USS
Liberty (AGTR-5) has been called the most decorated United States
Naval ship for a single action.
But if this is true, why have so few
Americans ever heard of the Liberty?
The reasons are many, but have
everything to do with who attacked the Liberty and who covered up the
attack, an ongoing and disgraceful coverup for nearly 50 years.
Though attempts have been, and
continue to be made, to bring the truth about the attack on the Liberty
to a wider audience, those responsible for the attack and the coverup have many
resources available to keep this national tragedy buried.
And the most shocking part of this
story, is that the country who attempted to sink the Liberty with all
those aboard, Israel, on that beautiful, sunny day in the Eastern Mediterranean
in June, 1967, not only continues to erase the true history of what happened,
but our own country, the United States of America, and those public officials
sworn to uphold and defend the U.S. Constitution, initiated the coverup and
continue, to this very second, to dishonor those 34 men viciously slaughtered
and the 174 wounded, who are forced to live knowing their own country abandoned
them on the altar of political expediency.
The coverup has been so thorough
that this is the only maritime attack in U.S. history not afforded a
Congressional investigation, as required by the U.S. Constitution.
Based on the new book by Liberty
survivor Phillip F. Tourney, Erasing the Liberty: My Battle to
Keep Alive the Memory of Israel’s Attack on the USS Liberty, some of the
ship’s survivors and supporters decided the most effective way to bring the
story of the Liberty to the widest possible audience was through a
full-length feature film.
Liberty survivors are dying off and need to have their
story told. They and the American people deserve no less.
Help us make this dream a reality.
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