The following article appeared in
The Stars and Stripes, Vol. 119 No. 26,
for the week of 24-30 June 1996.  The
article appeared on page 10 of the
16-page issue.

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	USS Liberty
	
   A No Greater Love wreath-lay-
ing ceremony at Arlington National
Cemetery 8 June remembered the
34 crewmen who died when the USS
Liberty was attacked by Israeli De-
fense Forces off the Sinai Penin-
sula on 8 June, 1967.

	The wreath was placed by Capt.
Jerry Ferguson, USN; Cmdr. Ronald
G.Schenk, USN, and No Greater
Love founder/CEO Carmella
LaSpada. The ceremony was held
in Section 34, where six crewmen of
the USS Liberty -- Jerry Lee Goss,
James M. Lupton, Lawrence P.
Hayden, David W. Marlborough,
Carl C. Nygren and Jack L. Raper --
are buried.
				
	The ship, ordered to the Middle
East because of impending war be-
tween Israel and Egypt, was about
1,000 miles from the front during the
Six-Day War, which began on 5
June, 1967.

	Three days later the lightly
armed vessel was attacked by Is-
raeli air and naval units with rock-
ets, cannons, machine-gun fire and
napalm. Torpedo boats then at-
tacked. The hour-long assault left
34 dead and 171 wounded.

	Israel later said the Liberty had
been mistaken for an Egyptian
freighter.