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   From: void@invalid.noy   
      
   Richard Brooks still remembers when the alert came.   
      
   With klaxons sounding and people yelling, the tannoy system warned   
   everyone “Standby to receive torpedo hit”.   
      
   “I thought I’ll never get out of this mess alive. Weird things were   
   running through your minds, because I’d chalked myself off.”   
      
   He felt the torpedoes hit and the ship pitch to one side but realised   
   he was still alive.   
      
   And then the priority became survival. As chief engineer, he could   
   tell the engines were still working. “My machinery was still intact   
   and I was still making headway. I yelled through the voice tube ‘Give   
   me all the steam pressure you’ve got, let’s get the hell out of this   
   area’”.   
      
   Eventually his ship, The USS Liberty made its way to safer waters and   
   managed to take stock of the sustained attack. Thirty-four were lying   
   dead, more than 171 were injured.   
      
   The victims of the day Israel attacked America.   
      
   The Liberty had been sitting in international waters off the Sinai   
   Peninsula. A spy ship, it had been gathering information as the 1967   
   Arab-Israeli Six-Day War raged on land.   
      
         
      
   https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2015/6/9/remembering-uss-libe   
   ty-when-israel-attacked-america   
      
      
   Thirty-four died and over 170 were injured in Israeli attack on US   
   warship during 1967 Arab-Israeli Six-Day War.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)