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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