A Personal Announcement
Summary
Learn English with Philip T. Turney, a 77-year-old veteran of the U.S. Navy, talks about the attack on the USS Liberty on June 8th, 1967, and how it changed the course of his life.
Transcript
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All right, you guys, I'll get right into this. A couple of weeks ago, I received a letter that changed my life, certainly changed the course of my life in politics.
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And I'm going to read you that letter now and let you know that the author of it is sitting across from me.
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It reads, my name is Philip Turney. I am 77 years old today.
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On June 8th, 1967, I was just 20 years old when the gallant crew of the USS Liberty was savagely attacked.
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Our American flag was proudly flying on our ship in the Mediterranean Sea that day.
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The designation A-G-T-R-5 was clearly painted on the bow, port and starboard sides. USS Liberty was written in English on her stern.
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When we arrived on June 7th, we were overflown by Israeli reconnaissance aircraft, and the same activity was repeated on the morning of June 8th.
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We were positively identified as American and friendly by the IDF.
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We had requested a destroyer escort long before we entered the Mediterranean, but we were denied twice.
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Our captain assured us that we were clearly marked as American and we therefore had nothing to fear.
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We were alone, 12 and a half miles off the coast of the Sinai Peninsula, always in international waters.
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The Israeli reconnaissance aircraft were clearly marked with the Star of David.
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We therefore felt secure, seeing a flying boxcar and other smaller recon propeller aircraft taking good care of us.
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The attack began at 2 o'clock on a beautiful, bright, sunny day by French-made Mirage and Mr. Ray jets painted black with no markings.
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We had no clue who was attacking us, but assumed it was an Arab state.
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During the first pass by, the jets took out all but one of our transmitting antennas, as well as every watertight door above the waterline.
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The air attack lasted about 25 minutes, killing and maiming our firefighters and any sailor who moved.
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Our radio man took one antenna offline, so it wasn't transmitting and wasn't hit.
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He ran a long wire to it, and the SOS went out to the 6th Fleet.
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Rockstar, rockstar, under attack by an unknown jet aircraft.
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Captain Tully, skipper of the USS Saratoga, sent jets to come to our aid.
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Before the jets hit the horizon, they were recalled by Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara.
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Captain Engen of the USS America in Tully relaunched more aircraft to aid us.
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They were also recalled, this time by Lyndon Baines Johnson himself.
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How did he know who was attacking us if we did not?
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We were set up by our own government to let a foreign government have their way with us.
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The IDF even dropped Napalm on the bridge of our ship.
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Three motor torpedo boats headed our way and one torpedo hit our starboard side.
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The attack continued for another hour and a half.
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Attacking jet aircraft destroyed all but three of our life rafts, which we had put overboard.
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We were going to place our most seriously wounded in them so that they would have a chance at life.
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They shot two of them out of the water and took one aboard their boats as a trophy of the kill.
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They left and we thought that it was over, but it wasn't.
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IDF helicopters were sent with troops armed and ready to board our ship and finish us off.
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I guess the gig was up when the mighty IDF could not sink our defenseless ship.
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When it was all done, there were over 821 rocket and cannon holes and over 5,000 armor-piercing bullets riddling the ship.
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That bomb was burning us up and a 40-by-40-foot torpedo hole was in her side, causing the ship to list badly to our starboard side.
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I guess they hoped that we would sink that night.
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Help was only 40 minutes away from us, but they left us out alone to die.
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When the USS America and the USS Davis arrived to help us, they took our wounded to care for them.
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Their wounds were so horrific, words cannot explain.
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Admiral Kidd boarded our ship a few days later, and the cover-up immediately began.
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We were ordered to never speak of the attack to anyone, not even with one another.
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Penalties would be fines, imprisonment, or worse, and we all knew that worse meant death.
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We have been treated like garbage for the last 57 years.
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Congress has been bought and paid for, with the exception, over the years, of a few brave lawmakers.
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Their names are Representatives Pete McCloskey, Paul Findlay, and Jim Traffikant.
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As the courageous Rep. Thomas Massey has noted, all Republican members of Congress, except for him, have AIPAC handlers.
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We can assume this is also true of nearly all Democrats.
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We are the most decorated ship in naval history for a single engagement.
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I believe God saved us that day to allow us to communicate the truth of this attack to leaders like you.
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We are just his servants that horrible day and now.
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The USS Liberty survivors are the biggest whistleblowers this country has ever seen.
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We have been smeared as anti-Semitic, Jew-haters, and Nazis.
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Israel did all the murdering that day, and the U.S. government did all the covering up.
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I'm asking you to help us save America by telling other the facts about the slaughter of my mates.
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Respectfully, Phil Turney, the president of the USS Liberty Veterans Association.
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It's a great honor for me to be here and represent the gallant crew of the USS Liberty that had been treated so badly, as I said in the letter, for 57 years.
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So I just want to start just really at the beginning, I guess.
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When did you sign up to be in the United States military?
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I joined the Navy at 17 years old at San Diego, California, that's where I went to boot camp.
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I did two tours of Vietnam before I got aboard the USS Liberty.
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And I did three tours with her, including her last.
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And I got out of the Navy, and then I wasn't working at the time.
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I thought I'd never go back in because why would I go back into a place where people are going to try to kill me?
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So I went back in, and I got aboard the USS Maddox, DD-731, which was in the Tonkin Gulf, which was another false flag.
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So just as a question, I mean, most people, just being in the Vietnam War, I mean, that was traumatizing enough, obviously.
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So you came back, and you decided that you were still going to serve the country.
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When exactly did you find out that you were going to be aboard the USS Liberty?
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I found out when I got orders to go to the East Coast from the West Coast.
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I was on an ammunition ship then, USS Mauna Kea AE-22.
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And I said, well, great, I'm going away to the East Coast, and I always wanted to go there anyway.
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And when I got aboard the Liberty, they said it was a ship that mapped the bottom of the ocean.
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And I said, wow, how could that be when all the antennas are going straight up?
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I believed anything they told me until a few months after that.
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Okay, so they initially said to you, they didn't even, you're serving on a ship, and they don't even tell you the truth about why you're there.
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So here you are, and they're like, you're just here to map the bottom of the ocean?
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Well, there were two different crews aboard that ship.
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And there were 100 of us with the other guys, boats and mates, cooks, things like that, to run the ship.
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So our only job, Candace, was to make sure that the communication technicians got to where they had to go so they could do their deal.
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And so when did you notice, or I guess, when did it become apparent to you, how long had you been aboard before you went,
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I don't really think that we're here to map the bottom of the ocean?
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Did they tell you, hey, I'm actually in the CIA or I'm in the NSA?
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No, they didn't talk to us, and we didn't talk to them.
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And, you know, we figured it out pretty quick what was going on, you know.
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And did you, just wondering how the setup is, are you sharing a room with four or five people?
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The spikes, the spies were in the back of the ship.
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Typical day was get up, take a shower, go to chow, go to work, stand your watches.
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And when we were out of sea, we had sunbathe a lot.
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Because, you know, we were always off the coast of Africa.
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And we were doing a reconnaissance there, up and down the coast, four or five miles an hour, all the time.
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We'd go to ports, different ports, Luanda, Angola, Abidjan, you name it, all the ports on the west coast.
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And you're also thinking this is very low risk.
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You're going, hey, in terms of having an engagement, I'm being sent out here.
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But on the last cruise, we were headed to Africa again, just like we always did.
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So at this point, and just to be clear, how long had you been aboard the USS Liberty?
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I did a little over two and a half years on the Liberty.
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I got seasick after the time I went out for about a week and then it was gone.
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So now you get these emergency orders and you have no idea where you're going.
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Are they giving you any information or they're just saying it's an emergency, everybody get back in?
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Everybody get back in and we headed to Rota, Spain.
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He was another linguist, but he worked directly for the NSA.
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We had entered the Mediterranean, you know, and to go through the Rock of Gibraltar and all that.
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And all the ships were going this way, going the other way.
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And still nobody's informing you about the Six-Day War?
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We did find out that we were going into a war zone.
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And what information, if any, did they give you?
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No, we were prepared because our captain, Captain McGonigal, we trained all the time for, you know, different situations, chemical drills, fire, all kinds of different stuff.
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And what's the general mood as you guys are heading towards there, the conversation between you and your shipmates?
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People had Star of Davids all over the ship, inside the ship, hoping that Israel would win because they were our best buddies in the whole wide world.
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Is that correct, when you arrive into the Sinai Peninsula?
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We get, well, we were, we got there on the 7th and the Israelis started overflying us then, taking pictures of us.
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You could see the cameraman taking pictures of us.
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They would dip their wings like everything's great.
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And we felt good because our best friends were there.
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I mean, none at all, because they were going to protect us.
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So, you had described in your letter saying that you had the American flag displayed.
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Can you describe for me, first and foremost, again, reiterate where it was displayed and also how large the flag was?
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And, in fact, the Israelis identified us as American and friendly.
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Well, we know it because of the intercept we picked up.
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And when they changed the watch, they forgot to tell the other watch commander that we were there.
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When you say take you off the war table, I'm not familiar with that lingo.
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Well, on the war table, they have, like, different ships or different.
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Like, literally set up the table that shows you.
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When they overflew us, they took the pictures of all the ship.
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They knew exactly what to hit and when to hit it.
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And I might add, I believe, and I think most of my shipmates believe, that this attack was planned a year in advance.
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Well, there was another spy ship in the area, USS Valdez.
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It was a civilian man ship, but it was owned by the Navy.
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It could have done the same thing that we were doing, but they took them out of the area.
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Sink and the USS Liberty is a hell of a lot sexier than Sink and the Valdez.
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So, they could blame it on the Arab states and bring us into World War III.
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And, like you said, on the 7th, they took pictures.
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So, did they still have, at that moment, the CIA agents on board?
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So, you still got the exact same amount of people that are on board here.
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So, we're talking about a pretty big sacrifice they were willing to make.
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We had a damage control drill just before the attack, say about 1 o'clock.
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I was an assistant on-scene leader in damage control.
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And, I was in an impregnated suit, which is a suit for washing down the ship of chemicals.
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I mean, 100 degrees on the deck, easier or more.
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The sound-powered phones were working on the Starved Gun Mount.
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Yeah, they're sound-powered phones, you know, from, just like, you know, you could put on headphones.
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And, I went to the IC shop, and I got a friend of mine, David Skolak.
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He was an IC man, and that was his job, take care of the IC system there for sound-powered phones and the IC system intercoms on the ship.
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And, he came up there, and the gunner's mate was up there also.
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Because, we could see the bombs going off and everything on the Sinai.
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So, we thought, you know, this is really not a good place to be.
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And, just as soon as I left that gun mount, about 30 seconds after I left it, I got back to my workstation, and all hell broke loose.
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First thing I remember was, all hands get to your general quarter stations.
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And, I got to my GQ station, which is in the front part of the ship, and those two men that I just left there, not a minute, it took me to get back up there.
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Anything that moved aboard that ship, they were shot at.
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As in the letter, they took out all of our antennas within three seconds.
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Every watertight door was hit, and this went on for 25 minutes, dropping napalm on us.
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There was nowhere to hide, nowhere to run, and you got people severely blown up, wounded badly.
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And it continued, and continued, and continued for 25, 30 minutes, and then there was a lull.
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We saw the torpedo boats coming, and we thought, the Star of David, you know, oh, good.
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And then we saw the torpedo boats, and the Star of David said, oh, man, here's our best friends.
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When you talk about them dropping napalm, and so they did this immediately, what does that do for people that are not aware?
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What is the purpose of that, and how does the body react to napalm, the chemical agent?
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It can burn you severely, and it also can explode your lungs.
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I tried to go up and put it out with CO2, and I couldn't do it.
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We had no way to fight fires with water at all.
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The fire hoses, instantly, so you couldn't take out fire.
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And during those 25 minutes, what were you doing, specifically?
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I was getting people off deck, taking them to a tree ice in the mess decks.
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The whole mess decks was full of people laying on the tables, on the floor.
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And it continued like that for, like I say, for the entire attack.
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You know, and then the torpedo boats got up to us.
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So, all the antennas are taken out, 25 minutes has passed, and they're obviously assuming that you can't communicate your distress.
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You indicated in your letter, was it before the torpedoes that, fortunately, somebody had taken one of those offline?
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He took that antenna off, lying, because it wasn't working.
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So, they didn't hit it, because they were using heat-seeking missiles to hit all the antennas.
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Because when they're tuning, they throw off heat.
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They automatically sent aircraft from the Saratoga and Captain Tully.
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And before they even hit the horizon, McNamara says, bring those aircraft back.
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So, our Secretary of Defense, I mean, this attack could, in theory, since he was able to get that message out,
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in theory, the attack could have been over how long after it started?
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In fact, they could have saved 25 brave American lives, old spies that got killed when the torpedo hit.
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If they would have just let those planes come help us.
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So, Robert McNamara, who, in interviews thereafter, says he doesn't remember a single thing that happened that day.
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He doesn't remember anything that happened that day.
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Then the American and Tully reconfigured their aircraft and they sent aircraft again because they went to a different command.
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It was their prerogative to go to a different, higher...
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Because they're thinking, what do you mean pull us back?
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And his exact words were, I don't give a GD if all those sailors die.
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I'm not going to embarrass my ally Israel, like I said in the letter.
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Now, how did he know that if we didn't know it?
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So, they then have the President of the United States.
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So, this guy's trying to do the right thing, Captain Tully.
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He gets called back by the Secretary of Defense.
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He's thinking, I'm going to go over his head because this is crazy.
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And now the President of the United States is saying, I don't care.
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I am not going to embarrass our friend and ally Israel.
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And, you know, they destroyed Captain Tully's career, too.
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In fact, he came to one of our reunions and broke down like a baby and cried.
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Having to follow orders when the orders were so demonic.
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This time, it's from the President of the United States.
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And now you are seeing torpedo boats with the Star of David.
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We don't know who's attacking us, but we know these are our friends.
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When did you notice, wait a second, something's not right here?
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When the old man said, prepare for torpedo hit starboard side, I saw two torpedoes go aft.
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Where the other two went, I don't know, but I know where one of them went.
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It hit in the communications spaces and killed 25 brave young men.
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And that's one of the reasons I'm here today, to be their voice.
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Because we're not going to let them die in vain.
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You know, there's not many survivors left that are dying out.
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And it's our duty as Americans and patriots to take care of them and make sure their lives didn't die in vain.
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And, you know, all presidents and all Congress, including Donald Trump, has not done anything for us.
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You know, Donald Trump's a new president again.
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I mean, we gave our lives and our blood for this country at the hands of the Zionist, Israel.
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And does he stand with Israel or does he stand with the United States fighting men that were slaughtered that day by the Zionist state and covered up, say it with mistaken identity?
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I call on you, President Trump, to give the USS Liberty the same courtesy we deserve or any fighting man that was killed that day.
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He's the longest serving admiral in the United States Navy.
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He served as the European commander and the Pacific commander and two times as chairman of the Joint Chiefs.
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And he says, I'll never believe it was a mistaken identity.
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And he called on Congress over and over to have an investigation.
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Congress says there already has been an investigation.
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There's been a board of inquiry by Admiral Isaac Kitt and his underling JAG officer, Ward Boston.
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They completed that investigation in seven days.
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And you escape, fortunately, are able to escape this.
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Because I just am thinking of that moment of consciousness when you think you're going to be saved because you see your friend and your ally.
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And then suddenly you realize that your friend and your ally is actually killing you.
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So there's no way they know this is an American ship.
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What's going on in your mind and emotionally in that moment if you could take yourself back?
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That conscious switch of, wait a second, this is not my friend.
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Well, I think Jesus Christ would know a lot about betrayal.
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And I think that's one of the reasons I'm here is because Jesus Christ didn't want us to die that day.
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We were going to put our most seriously wounded in them so they'd have a chance at life.
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They shot two out of the water and took one aboard.
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So there's absolutely no way they did not know.
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You are now realizing that you cannot help the wounded.
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Well, when the torpedo hit, we did what we could do for damage control.
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And they continued and continued and continued doing that.
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They sent over a troop carrying helicopters with the Marines in it to board our ship, scholarship, and kill us all.
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I was on the main deck when they were coming over.
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I was on the main deck trying to still get people off the main deck.
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And then they got there, and this Marine, he had his foot on the skid.
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I thought they were going to come down in a rope or a ladder or whatever.
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And he gave it right back to me and just smiled.
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And they got by with it because of the crooked government then and now.
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So you're watching roommates die, bleeding, torpedoed, nap bomb.
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And you make eye contact with this guy thinking he's going to board the ship.
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You give him the finger, and he gives you the finger back and smiles at you.
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And we were left out there for 17 hours for help.
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This is the part that is so shocking to me because the President of the United States knows that you're under attack.
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The Secretary of Defense knows that you're under attack.
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You know that, as you said, Captain Sully, Scully, Tully, tried twice to help save you.
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And you're telling me that after they went away, 17 hours.
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How many people at that moment were injured, dying?
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What was happening on that ship for the next 17 hours?
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Well, two-thirds of the crew was either dead or wounded.
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And Doc Kiefer, we had one doc aboard the ship.
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He had been shot in the abdomen, and both of his knees were shot up.
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I helped him in one operation, a guy by the name of Gary Blanchard.
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So I rubbed his feet, tried to get some circulation.
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Put a few stitches on him and put him open to the side, and just kept on doing it.
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Because I'm sure, as you said, many people died.
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I mean, what were the conversations that you recall?
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You know, Candace, I really didn't recall a whole lot about that.
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I do know that the Lieutenant Commander Armstrong, he died in the mess decks.
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I lit him a couple cigarettes, and then I left, and I came back, and he was dead.
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A lot of them were walking wounded, and all they did was want to help their fellow shipmates.
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We had none to fight back with but our will and our wits and with God's beautiful hand on us.
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In fact, when that ship got torpedoed, it was like the hand of God was holding us up
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because it was going like that, ready to whirl over.
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And so 17 hours later, two-thirds of the crew was dead.
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Well, the first thing we saw was several days later when Admiral Kidd got there,
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and he told him everything, what happened, and why didn't he come help us,
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He had four or five in the sick bay at the time.
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Three stars out there, and he said, I'm just like your dad.
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We told him about the machining of the life rafts,
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with the machining gun of all the people, the helicopters, everything that went on.
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He says, he got beet red, and he got right in my face, as I'm telling you.
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You better never talk about this again to anybody.
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I'll make sure you end up in prison, fine or worse.
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There was one fellow, his name is Mickey LeMay.
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He's still got 50 pieces of shrapnel name right now.
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They took him to Bremerhaven, Germany, for medical care.
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He was in a room with a bunch of other people, a lot of different beds.
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He got his own room, and he was interrogated by an officer.
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And he says, your name is no longer LeMay, it's Smith.
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And you're thinking, okay, at least now it's over.
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In fact, I didn't talk about it until about 42, 43 years ago,
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There was an article in the paper by a person by the name of,
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And I felt like the whole world had just come off my shoulders
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And how long, you said, before you started speaking,
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Well, it was the, well, let's see, 41, 18 years after the fact.
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And like I say, when I read that article, man, I was,
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when your own government betrays you and still betrays you
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They're calling us liars, Nazis, and Jew haters,
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I'd like to call out Charlie Kirk and Ben Shapiro,
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If you think it's conspiracy, debate me live on TV.
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And my shipmates will be there too, if you want them.
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Debate us, if you think it's conspiracy theory.
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The USS Liberty incident is very frequently used by anti-Semites
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to suggest that Israel deliberately targets American ships
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So both American naval records and Israeli air force records
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suggest that there was a case of mistaken identity
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Israel thought that it was an Egyptian ship and shot it.
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Now, there are a bunch of conspiracy theories on actually both sides of this.
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There's a conspiracy theory on the American side
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that suggests that Israel, for no reason that can be discerned,
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decided to shoot up an American ship to accomplish.
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there is a theory that I have not seen a lot of support for
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that the USS Liberty was being used as a transmission vessel
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to send Israeli military locations to the Egyptians
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during the 1967 war, and Israel knew that and shot it.
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Again, I think the evidence is lacking on both of those things.
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which is that this is a mistaken case of allied,
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Anyways, you guys, I want to remind you about HALO.
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You'll also hear from Pastor Francis Chan and Jeff Cavins
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This season will be such a beautiful opportunity
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Spend time on the most important thing this Christmas,
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I can't even imagine living through something like that
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and then being gaslit and told that you're liars
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only to recognize that your country betrayed you,
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And this has been going on for two or three years