About 15 students and
community
members
came
to
hear
USS
Liberty Survivor Larry
L. Bowen speak at the
Michigan League about
the true story of the USS
Liberty incident on June
8, 1967. This event was
sponsored by the Veteran
and
Military
Services
in
conjunction
with
Veterans Week sponsored
by
the
University
of
Michigan.
Bowen
is
a
Purple
Heart
recipient
for
his service on the USS
Liberty incident. Philip
Larson, program director
for Veteran and Military
Services,
introduced
Bowen
before
talking
about the USS Liberty

incident. Bowen is part
of
the
USS
Liberty
Veterans
Association,
an organization that has
spent the past 55 years
telling their first hand
accounts of USS Liberty
attack.
There
were
34
American
casualties
on the USS Liberty on
June 8, 1967, caused by
torpedo
and
bombing
attacks from the Israeli
Defense Forces on the
Mediterranean
Sea.
The event was officially
considered an accident
by both countries. Israel
apologized
and
paid
the
victims’
families
compensation, according
to Haaretz.
According to Bowen,
the U.S. Government told
the survivors of the attack
to never mention the USS

Liberty
incident
and
that the government has
maintained this position
— even today, he said, the
issue is currently being
treated this way.
“I
feel
like
a
man
without
a country because the
government is refusing
to
acknowledge
what
happened,” Bowen said.
“And then after the attack,
we were told never to
talk about it or we would
be threatened with fines
or imprisonment. For all
this time, we’ve not been
allowed to speak, been
treated
like
criminals
and we’re still not getting
support.”
“Justice
for
the
Liberty,” a documentary
about the USS Liberty
incident,
was
shown
during the event. The
documentary
included
personal
accounts
from
USS
Liberty
survivors
James
Ennes,
Richard
Keipher,
Larry
Weaver and Ernest
Gallo.
Kurt Hill, retired
Veteran
liaison
for the College of
Engineering,
told
The
Daily
that
the
movie
really
showed how the USS
Liberty
survivors
did everything they
were supposed to do
for the country and
how they were let
down.
“I
liked
the
historical
events
to
look
at
how
our
servicemen
did their job and
were kind of left
hanging in there,”
Hill said. “National
security
and
that
whole operation put
in
effort
for
(the
story) to not be told

and that was the most
important part.”
The
movie
also
discussed post traumatic
stress
disorder
and
how
it
affected
the
lives of the USS Liberty
survivors. Bowen shared
his own story of how he
discovered he had PTSD.
“I’m one of the late
respondents
of
PTSD,
never knew I had it,”
Bowen said. “I walked in
to talk to the psychiatrist
and she asked some of the
difficult questions that
(people in the movie)
were talking about and
she says ‘Larry, you’ve
got PTSD’. I guess I
never really heard of the
term before, so it was
completely new to me.”
At the event, Bowen
brought
many
books
and
pamphlets
with
information
about
his
account
of
the
USS
Liberty incident. There
were some books written
by survivors of the event,
including
Ennes,
who
wrote about his first-
hand account in his novel
“Assault on Liberty.”
LSA junior Matthew
Iamarino also told The
Daily that he hopes this
talk will spread the word
about the USS Liberty
incident and bring justice
to the survivors.
“I was very happy to see
the USS Liberty incident
event on the email for
Veterans Day. I was very
excited
to
see
that,”
Iamarino said. “It’s been
50 years since the event
occurred and the people
on the ship still have
not received justice. So
hopefully more talks like
this will bring attention
to the event and we’ll be
able to speak about what
happened that day.”

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