The D-Day anniversary seemed a particularly appropriate date to acknowledge Wilbur Wood’s June 3 letter, “Lest we forget,” regarding the Israeli attack on the USS Liberty during the 1967 Israeli-Arab War.
I had never heard of this incident; and, as an American Jew, felt compelled to research it.
What I found at http://usslibertyveterans.org truly dismayed me. I realize much Internet content is questionable, but the evidence portrayed there seems to pass the sniff test.
Supposedly, according to some reports, Israel premeditatedly destroyed an American ship for the purpose of blaming it on Egypt and drawing America into the war.