MAIN STREET USA AND THE USS LIBERTY

The cover up has to continue for the fabricators.  It’s a lie they cannot allow to be exposed.  It has transcended the attack itself all at the USS Liberty’s survivors and family’s expense. Listening to these bastards you’d think Israel was the victim or the one being persecuted. Can you imagine the never ending criticism  had Americans killed 34 Israelis?

The cover up is and always has been coordinated and orchestrated on a deliberate level.  There is no doubt.  It has been condoned by the US Government since June 8, 1967.

MAIN STREET USA AND THE USS LIBERTY

by: John Borne
July – August  1997,  The Link - Volume 30, Issue

"What's "anti-Semitic" about a rememberence of 34 dead USS Liberty sailors deliberately killed by Israel? How dare these disloyal "Israel Firsters" if not Israeli fifth columnists smear their memory and honor with their "dual loyalty" and buncom politics?

Grafton, Wisconsin (pop. 8,381) and Keene, New Hampshire (pop. 21,449) are 800 miles apart and unlikely communities to become embroiled in divisive verbal warfare over the remembrance of American war dead.

Naming a new public library after the Liberty ignited the controversy in Grafton.  A Memorial Day newspaper editorial in Keene became an incendiary bomb for its mention of the Liberty as one example of a field of combat where Americans had perished.

Grafton, 20 miles north of Milwaukee, began raising money for a local library in 1987. Two local citizens, Ben and Ed Grob, then in their eighties, contributed half the cost, $400,000. The town council offered to name the library after them, but the Grobs, who had read “Assault on the Liberty ,” asked that the library be named the USS Liberty Memorial Library. The town council agreed.  Controversy began at once when members of the Milwaukee Jewish Council objected on the grounds that the name was an insult to Israel and American Jews.

The Milwaukee Journal commented that the fear of anti-Semitism was a legitimate issue and reported that the Grobs had contributed money to right-wing and anti-Semitic causes. In June 1988 Joe Meadors, John Hrankowski and Paul McCloskey went to Grafton by invitation for a debate in the American Legion hall. Some members of the audience asked whether the Liberty Liberty men insisted that the name was to honor dead seamen, and nothing more. The majority clearly favored using the name “ Liberty Memorial Library,” but the minority carried on the fight with the aid of The Milwaukee Journal, which devoted numerous stories and editorials to the issue. name might not be used to promote anti-Semitism, but the

There was an escalation of rhetoric. Those favoring the Grobs were denounced as “Nazis.” Mayor James Grant claims that he and his wife were harassed. But on June 10, 1989, the library was dedicated and two buses filled with Liberty men and their families were there for the ceremony. Some of the Liberty men wept openly at the first memorial to their dead comrades and their ordeal.

In the Grafton controversy, the Liberty men were willing to accept financial aid and emotional support from the Grobs, although these industrialists had a long history of support for causes that were distasteful to them. They may have felt that by this time they had fought many battles and absorbed unwarranted abuse, and that their attempts to be scrupulous and careful had earned them little.

The long dispute in Grafton had barely ended when Keene, NH, was divided by a battle over the Liberty issue that began with an editorial in The Keene Sentinel. Its Memorial Day editorial in May 1989 spoke of the American dead in many actions from the Revolutionary War to the present, including the men killed on the Liberty. The give and take in the letters column raged on for six months. As was the case in Grafton, groups and individuals outside Keene joined the argument. Many Liberty men wrote letters to the paper, and opponents of the Liberty from Boston also wrote. Jewish hostility grew against the Sentinel for opening its columns to the continuing debate and some businesses withdrew their advertising.

In late October, interest in the topic had become so great that a formal debate was held at Keene State College with Liberty men participating. While not all opposing views were changed, the Liberty men were gratified by some aspects of the six-month “lesson in political science,” as the local editor described it. They were particularly heartened by the agreement from two of their most eloquent opponents, one of them a rabbi, that Congress should investigate the attack.

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