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Texans in 39 foot boat sailed 8,000 miles, to hold memorial for American sailors killed by Israel
• www.councilforthenationalinterest.orgLarry Toenjes, 74 years old, is planning to hold a memorial service for those killed on board the ship, the USS Liberty. Israel shelled and torpedoed the ship, an electronics surveillance ship, in an attack that lasted as long as the attack on Pearl Harbor.
UPDATE: Memorial to be held 5pm Eastern Time Thursday, Sept. 8 and will be streamed on the CNI website live.
While Israel and its partisans have tried to claim that the attack was "a mistake," a 2003 inquiry by an independent commission led by a retired four-star Navy Admiral, a Rear Admiral, and the highest ranking Medal of Honor recipient in the U.S., a Marine General, announced on Capitol Hill that all the evidence indicated that the attack had been intentional, had consisted of an act of war against the United States by Israel, and that a cover-up had been ordered by the White House.