Liberty Blue
The Tornado that struck the USS Liberty: Made in the USA?
Part 3 of the series USS Liberty: "It is God who keep us at the surface. "
On October 2, 2007, John Crewdson, Chicago Tribune main correspondent said, "Bryce Lockwood, Staff Sergeant maritime industry, an expert in Russian, winner of the Silver Star for heroism, ordained Baptist minister, shouting into the phone.
"I'm angry, I'm seething with anger" Forty years, and I'm seething with anger! " [1]
When I spoke with Ol 'Sarge Bryce's beef cattle farm in Missouri telephone November 10, 2007, he not only still seething and shouting, he also melted in tears, remembering that day in infamy June 8, 1967, when the Johnson administration in connivance with the State of Israel in a treason cover up the attack against the USS Liberty, an intelligence gathering [spy] ship ship, hardly armed with only four .50 machine guns, sailing in international waters, flying the American flag during the Six Day War.
But it was not until the evening of September 26, 2006, that Ol 'Sarge Bryce opened publicly after bottling experience of 8 June 1967.
That night, former CIA analyst for 27 years, Ray McGovern, "A gave a conference on Iraq to a crowd of 400 at National Avenue Christian Church in Springfield, Missouri … [Regarding the Lobby Israel and its] power over our government and Congress. In sum, in June 1967, after deliberately using fighter-bombers and torpedo boats to attack the USS Liberty for over two hours in an attempt to sink and kill all its crew, then get the U.S. government, Navy and Congress to cover what happened, the Israeli government has learned that he could literally get away with murder. "[2]
400 McGovern face blank stares and asked how many people in the crowd had already heard about the USS Liberty, and three hands rose.
McGovern called the man closest to him and "ramrod straight, it was:" Sir, Sergeant Bryce Lockwood, Marine Corps United States, retired. I am a member of the crew of the USS Liberty, Mr. President, I do not been able to [talk about the attack]. But it was nearly 40 years, and I would try this evening, sir. "[Ibid]
Bryce Lockwood a descendant of Mayflower pilgrims was a Russian linguist and Marine Staff Sergeant on a special mission assigned to the freedom to collect information communication aboard a boat more easily identifiable because it was 455 feet long and festooned with radio antennas.
Ol 'Sarge Bryce informed me that, "Admiral Moorer Tom, a former chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff stated that the Freedom was the most identifiable ship in the Navy. He thought it was the ugliest ship in the Navy, but I thought it was enough! "
Lockwood often crowded as he recalled the events of June 8, 1967 and post-traumatic stress he has endured for forty years, "Ten feet from where I was that torpedoes may have been made in the USA affected us and twenty-five Americans died immediately …
"Before the attack, some sailor had teletype paper is blank and four feet by six Israeli flag and support a blue felt marker, he drew the Star of David. The torpedo struck a few feet from him. The torpedo that may have been made in the United States has reached a main reinforcement and absorbed energy. If the torpedo had hit six inches to the left or the right of this accolade, freedom would split in two! "
The auditor journalist, Ken Halliwell, former U.S. Navy Communications Technician, have been honorably discharged in 1974 as a Petty Officer First Class, after serving six years in the Naval Security Group. Ken wrote in an email to me November 11, 2007, "The torpedo did not directly strike the hull on the deck where he [Lockwood] was located. He hit the hull to the deck below him, and opened a large hole in the hull on the deck in the explosion. See my search to: http://usslibertyinquiry.googlepages.com/essay4. Nevertheless, it does not change the fact that a torpedo struck the ship and is a big hole in the hull on the deck of Bryce.
On the phone, Ol 'Sarge Bryce admitted: "My first thought was: I guess that he is God! I'm going home! But at least my children and Lois will be supported. I would never deny that it God has kept the Liberty afloat!
"I could save myself, but it was Phil Tourney who saved me a man unconscious and I tried to save. It was Phil who opened the hatch hole to check how the ship was injured and I was the other side. I tried to carry an unconscious man to scale and every time I got to the top of the ladder I dropped him. The only light I had was coming through the hole torpedo, a torpedo that may have been made in the United States.
"Nobody can really prove that torpedo was or was not in the U.S., but I understand that America sold surplus torpedoes to the Second World War in Italy and Italy sold these torpedoes to Israel.
"You must also understand that Sea natural roller, and each time the water gushes ship rolled in and out of the torpedo hole, a 36 x 24 foot hole, the size of a small house American!
"I dropped this guy four times trying to get across: every time I left, I saw him being sucked out of the torpedo hole, a torpedo that may have been made in the USA!
"I was so angry the outbreak was tightly closed and I was knocking on his help. Phil has regulations because it does not empowerment to be there, but he saved our lives. There was so much confusion, I fainted for a while and when I got to tell me that I saved the lives of three men, but I only remember two. "
Lockwood groaned and needlessly apologized for crying when he informed me "My two Arab linguists, Sergeant and Corporal Jack Raper Eddie Rehmeyer were killed … After the meeting 25 Vets for Freedom, I sitting in a truck stop in Cabool, Missouri. I wear a t-shirt and LIBERTY lady coming towards me and asked me if I was in Norfolk, where freedom had been moored. She said she had been betrothed Gary Blanchard … Gary was sitting in a harness and chipping the paint when the planes hit and riddled shrapnel his kidneys … Mr. Keifer sedated him, as he said: "Gary, it does not look good, but if I do not work you will not do it … Gary never woke up. "
I leave Lockwood catch his breath and calm for a few minutes before I asked him what he said that his mission was and if there were any Hebrew linguists aboard.
He said that Lt. Commander David Ed Lewis, the officer 194 men in charge of the total crew of 294 on freedom, "Called Raper, Rehmeyer and me together and told us that our mission was to keep track of all Russia and United Arab Republic of communication. He said that if we took all the Israeli papers note and drop … I am not saying There was not any Hebrew linguists aboard and I certainly was able to know, but I had no knowledge of any …
"An English journalist, I think his name is Trevor Penick, he worked for Thames Television in London and when he interviewed Moshe Dayan, he questioned on the Liberty and the U.S. Congress. Dayan said something like "Forget Congress. We own Congress. "
1: www.baltimoresun.com/news/world/chi-liberty_tuesoct02, 0.6015776. History
2: http://www.consortiumnews.com/2007/100507a.html
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About the Author
Eileen Fleming, Reporter and Editor http://www.wearewideawake.org/
Author “KEEP HOPE ALIVE” and “Memoirs of a Nice Irish American Girl’s’ Life in Occupied Territory”
Producer “30 Minutes With Vanunu.”
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