Ron Kukal - USS Liberty Survivor

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Ron Kukal - USS Liberty Survivor

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On Wed Dec 9 I shall be on the Truth Brigade Radio telling my story as a Liberty
survivor.  It will be told the way I have always wanted to tell it.  I will tell whomever will
listen that I am a common ordinary man with no initials behind my name.  I just happened
to see and hear of some of the greatest miracles ever performed on June 8, 1967.  If you have no
beliefs you might still want to listen.  If you do, it will strengthen you, of that I am sure.  I am the
guy in the picture below in the forefront with a grin on his face.  The grin had nothing to do with
the task we were performing.  The man who took the picture was a great friend who is gone now,
and I won't repeat his remarks as he was taking the picture.  I hope you will notify all those who
might be interested.  I can't lure you with a great bio, because I have none.  My only bio is having
been exposed to something that most people never see in a life time.  I will be reading my short story
called "Nightmare on the Mediterranean" that was written during some of the most trying times of
my life.   If you have no interest in what I believe God himself has done here that is fine, but I do think
you might be missing something that you have never heard  before.
 
Ron Kukal Survivor and Petty Officer in Charge of Body Recovery and Identification
USS Liberty, June 8, 1967

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Below are the names of the crew members of the USS Liberty taken from an excellent USS Liberty website run that you can find here.
These are the men who were the victims of naked Israeli aggression on that day and who were betrayed by the US government. May God bless and have mercy on them all.
USS Liberty Personnel Roster(as of 8 June 1967)
(list updated as of 2/15/2009)
* Wounded in action.
+ Killed in action
THE SHIP’S OFFICERS
+ Lieutenant Commander Philip McCutcheon Armstrong, Jr., USN
* Lieutenant Maurice Hogue Bennett, USN
* Lieutenant James Marquis Ennes, Jr., USNR
* Lieutenant George Huston Golden, USN
* Lieutenant Richard Francis Kiepfer, Medical Corps, USNR
* Lieutenant Commander David Edwin Lewis, USN
* Ensign David Geprge Lucas, USNR
* Commander William Loren McGonagle, USN – (since deceased)
* Lieutenant James George O’Connor, USNR – (since deceased)
Ensign Malcom Patrick O’Malley, USNR
* Lieutenant (junior grade) Lloyd Clyde Painter, USNR
+ Lieutenant James Cecil Pierce, USN
Ensign John Deadrick Scott, USNR
* Ensign Richard Patten Taylor, Jr., USNR
+ Lieutenant Stephen Spencer Toth, USN
* Lieutenant (junior grade) Malcom McEachin Watson, USNR
THE CHIEF PETTY OFFICERS
Chief Petty Officer Joseph A. Benkert
* Chief Petty Officer Richard J. Brooks
* Chief Petty Officer Carlyle F. Lamkin
+ Chief Petty Officer Raymond E. Linn
* Chief petty Officer James A. Matthews
+ Chief Petty Officer Melvin D. Smith
Chief Petty Officer Wayne L. Smith — (since deceased)
* Chief Petty Officer Harold J. Thompson
Senior Chief Petty Officer Stanley W. White
THE PETTY OFFICERS
* Reginald N. Addington
Americo Aimetti
+ William B. Allenbaugh
* Timothy P. Ameen (since deceased)
James M. Anderson Jr
* Joe D. Anderson
Alvis L Armstrong
Rogelio M. Bagan
* Richard K. Baker
Gary L. Barton
* Lowell T. Bingham — (since deceased)
* Glenn L. Bloxham — (since deceased)
* Salvatore Boccella
* John E. Booth
* Larry L. Bowen
Thomas E. Bradley
* John Victor Brong
+ Francis Brown
* Frank J. Brown
* Virgil L. Brownfield (since deceased)
* Gary Wayne Brummett
* Ronald D. Buck
Charles E. Byrd
John J. Calligan
+ Ronnie J. Campbell
* Richard C. Carlson
* David N. Carnahan
* Jeffery R. Carpenter
Joseph P. Carpenter
* Calvin L. Chadsey
* Fred M. Cleveland — (since deceased)
Charles J. Cocnavitch
+ Jerry L. Converse
James E. Cotten
Juan A. Craig
* Russell O. David, Jr.
* James Ray Davidson
Duilio Demori
* Marvin F. Dodd
* Henry E Durzewski, Jr.
* Robert M. Dye
* Lewis D. Eckhart
* Dennis M. Eikleberry
+ Robert B. Eisenberg
Eddie G. Elder
John W. Fisher
Everrett L. Freese
Ernest A. Gallo
* Kenneth R. Gauthier
* Ronald D. Gilson
Larry Goins
+ Jerry L. Goss
+ Curtis A. Graves
Troy L. Green
* Stephen C. Gurchik
James T. Halbardier
James V. Halman
Charles K. Hauck
* David W. Hawkins
* David C. Hazen — (since deceased)
* Charles R. Hendricks
* Donald Herold (since deceased)
+ Warren E Hersey
+ Alan Higgins
Wayne L. Hildebrand, Jr.
Jerry G. Hobson
* John S. Horne, Jr.
* Fredrick K. Johns
* Melvin P. Johnson
Charles F. Jones
+ Richard W. Keene
* James F. Kelly (since deceased)
Robert C. Kidd (since deceased)
Kenneth R. Kimble
William M. Kram
* Loren W. Kreun
* Ronald G. Kukal
* Calvin L. Landis
* William M. Lemay
* Joseph C. Lentini
Claude L. Lewis, Jr.
* Anthony J. Liefeld
* Philip L. Long
Donald J. Lundin
+ James M. Lupton
+ Duane R. Marggraf
Charles M. Martin — (since deceased)
* John L. Massengale — (since deceased)
Edward H. McClister
Terry L. McFarland
* David l. McFeggen
Garvin L. D. McMakin
+ Anthony P. Mendle
James H. Merritt
* Stephen E. Meyer
Thomas R. Moulin
David V. Myers
James L. Needham
* Richard D. Neese
* John P. Newell
Richard L. Newton
Francis J. O’classen
Glenn R. Oliphant
* Eugene Owens
* David W. Page
* Dennis A. Patten
* Garland W. Payne
* Edward G. Perkins
David T. Plasterer
* Carl L. Pleasants
* Floyd H. Pollard
* John G. Popielski — (since deceased)
Martin D. Powledge
Eugene Prigmore
* Albert E. Rammelsburg
* John R. Randall
Richard J. Reger
Paddy “E” Rhodes
* Douglas C. Ritenburg
* Charles L. Rowley (since deceased)
* Kenneth M. Schaley
* Robert J. Schnell
* Samuel L. Schulman
* Maurice B. Shafer
* Harold E. Six
* James C. Smith
+ John C. Smith, Jr.
* Thomas B. Smith
* Dennis C. Snader
+ John C. Spicher
* Joseph D. Stoudt
Richard S. Sturman
John R. Sutter
* Ralph B. Sweet (since deceased)
* Charles J. Thome
+ Alexander N. Thompson
* Larry B. Thorn
+ Thomas R. Thornton
+ Phillipe C. Tiedtke
* Barry R. Timmerman
* Phillip F. Tourney
Ronald R. Trader
* Sammy M. Uber
* Donaciano Valdez, Jr.
* Thomas Lee VanCleave
George R. Vanderpool
+ Fredrick J. Walton
* Jerry W. Ward
Joseph P. Ward — (since deceased)
Daniel J. Warwas
Clyde W. Way
Gorden J. Wedig
* Gregory Welch
THE SEAMAN
Gary L. Aftoora
Benjamin G. Aishe
* Richard E. Anderson — (since deceased)
Theodore L. Arfsten
* Joeseph W Ashworth
Thomas G. Bacskay
John W. Beattie
* Edward H. Bechtel
* Nathan D. Benedict, Jr.
* Lee R. Bennett
* Gerald R. Bisher
+ Gary R. Blanchard
* Calvin. Bostic II
* Don R Botcher
David W. Bundy
* Danny R. Byrd
* William E. Casper
* “J”"C” Colston, Jr. (since deceased)
* Rodney C. Concepcion
* Eddie Lamar Cook
* George R. Cornish
* Rodney E. Dally
* Dale E. Daniels
Rodolfo A. Diana
* James P. DiGeronimo
Edward J. Duea — (since deceased)
* Kenneth B. Eakins
Alan W. Easton
* Kenneth P. Ecker
* Donald F. Follin, Jr.
* Ronald F. Grantski
Edward D. Handy
+ Lawrence P. Hayden
* Warren D. Heaney
+ Carl Hoar
Glen J. Holden
* John M. Hrankowski
Ronald A. Hurst
* Thomas F. Jackson
Duane D. Johnson
Perry W. Johnson
* James P. Kavanaugh
* Glenn D. Kelly — (since deceased)
Frederick W. Kerner
* Eugene H. Kirk
* David J. Kisiel
* Stephen J. Krasnasky
* Alan F. Kriner
* John D. Lamar
Dale D. Larkins
* Steven J. Latorre
* Joel W Lehman
* Terry W. Lehman
* Thomas W. Lemond
+ James L. Lenau
Ronald L. Lipply
Benjamian L. Lomasang
Robert W. Long
* Gerrald F. Lasasso
Randy W. Lucas
* James A Maraio
* Sofronio P. Marfil
+ David W. Marlborough
* Jamie L. Mathews
* Robert L. McAllister
* Patrick H. McAndrews
* Frank McInturff III
* Joseph L. Meadors
Remegio N. Mercado
* David B. Miller
Richard G. Mumford
+ Carl C. Nygren
* Donald W. Pageler
* Stamatie Pahides
* Herbert J. Parker
* Salvador Payan
* Herbert C. Peetoom
* Gerald H. Pierson
* Harvey L. Purcell
Anthony A Quintero
* Thomas A. Quintero
David Ramey
* Robert B. Reilly
* Thomas J. Reilly — (since deceased)
Stephen J. Richard
* Victor J. Rossi, Jr.
William R. Russell
Reynald S. Sarno
* Robert A. Scarborough
* Ronald W. Schneider
* David A. Shaw
* Michael R. Simpson
+ David Skolak
* Larry J. Slavens
Jerry D. Smith
* Larry L. Soper — (since deceased)
Michael J. Tobin
Stephen B. Tracy
* Jeffery L. Triplett
* Thomas E. Vanderschuur
* Robert B. Vandeventer
* Carl J. Vickers
Richard W. Wainwright
* Robert M. Waltz
Pedro P. Watan
* Richard L. Weaver
Tommy W. Wheeler
* George W. Wilson, Jr.
* Daniel B. Wood
* Robert R. Zager
THE MARINES
* Staff Sergeant Bryce F. Lockwood
+ Sergeant Jack L. Raper
+ Corporal Edward E. Rehmeyer
CIVILIANS
* Donald L. Blalock (since deceased)
+ Allen M. Blue
Robert L. Wilson

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Declaration of Ward Boston, Jr.,Captain, JAGC, USN (Ret.)

Counsel to the U.S. Navy Court of Inquiry’s investigation into the Israeli attack on the USS Liberty
I, Ward Boston, Jr. do declare that the following statement is true and complete:
For more than 30 years, I have remained silent on the topic of USS Liberty. I am a military man and when orders come in from the Secretary of Defense and President of the United States, I follow them.
However, recent attempts to rewrite history compel me to share the truth.
In June of 1967, while serving as a Captain in the Judge Advocate General Corps, Department of the Navy, I was assigned as senior legal counsel for the Navy’s Court of Inquiry into the brutal attack on USS Liberty, which had occurred on June 8th.
The late Admiral Isaac C. Kidd, president of the Court, and I were given only one week to gather evidence for the Navy’s official investigation into the attack, despite the fact that we both had estimated that a proper Court of Inquiry into an attack of this magnitude would take at least six months to conduct.
Admiral John S. McCain, Jr., then Commander-in-chief, Naval Forces Europe (CINCUSNAVEUR), at his headquarters in London, had charged Admiral Kidd (in a letter dated June 10, 1967) to “inquire into all the pertinent facts and circumstances leading to and connected with the armed attack; damage resulting therefrom; and deaths of and injuries to Naval personnel.â€
Despite the short amount of time we were given, we gathered a vast amount of evidence, including hours of heartbreaking testimony from the young survivors.
The evidence was clear. Both Admiral Kidd and I believed with certainty that this attack, which killed 34 American sailors and injured 172 others, was a deliberate effort to sink an American ship and murder its entire crew. Each evening, after hearing testimony all day, we often spoke our private thoughts concerning what we had seen and heard. I recall Admiral Kidd repeatedly referring to the Israeli forces responsible for the attack as “murderous bastards.†It was our shared belief, based on the documentary evidence and testimony we received first hand, that the Israeli attack was planned and deliberate, and could not possibly have been an accident.
I am certain that the Israeli pilots that undertook the attack, as well as their superiors, who had ordered the attack, were well aware that the ship was American.
I saw the flag, which had visibly identified the ship as American, riddled with bullet holes, and heard testimony that made it clear that the Israelis intended there be no survivors. 10. Not only did the Israelis attack the ship with napalm, gunfire, and missiles, Israeli torpedo boats machine-gunned three lifeboats that had been launched in an attempt by the crew to save the most seriously wounded — a war crime.
Admiral Kidd and I both felt it necessary to travel to Israel to interview the Israelis who took part in the attack. Admiral Kidd telephoned Admiral McCain to discuss making arrangements. Admiral Kidd later told me that Admiral McCain was adamant that we were not to travel to Israel or contact the Israelis concerning this matter.
Regrettably, we did not receive into evidence and the Court did not consider any of the more than sixty witness declarations from men who had been hospitalized and were unable to testify in person.
I am outraged at the efforts of the apologists for Israel in this country to claim that this attack was a case of “mistaken identity.â€
In particular, the recent publication of Jay Cristol’s book, The Liberty Incident, twists the facts and misrepresents the views of those of us who investigated the attack.
It is Cristol’s insidious attempt to whitewash the facts that has pushed me to speak out.
I know from personal conversations I had with Admiral Kidd that President Lyndon Johnson and Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara ordered him to conclude that the attack was a case of “mistaken identity†despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
Admiral Kidd told me, after returning from Washington, D.C. that he had been ordered to sit down with two civilians from either the White House or the Defense Department, and rewrite portions of the court’s findings.
Admiral Kidd also told me that he had been ordered to “put the lid†on everything having to do with the attack on USS Liberty. We were never to speak of it and we were to caution everyone else involved that they could never speak of it again.
I have no reason to doubt the accuracy of that statement as I know that the Court of Inquiry transcript that has been released to the public is not the same one that I certified and sent off to Washington.
I know this because it was necessary, due to the exigencies of time, to hand correct and initial a substantial number of pages. I have examined the released version of the transcript and I did not see any pages that bore my hand corrections and initials. Also, the original did not have any deliberately blank pages, as the released version does. Finally, the testimony of Lt. Painter concerning the deliberate machine gunning of the life rafts by the Israeli torpedo boat crews, which I distinctly recall being given at the Court of Inquiry and included in the original transcript, is now missing and has been excised.
Following the conclusion of the Court of Inquiry, Admiral Kidd and I remained in contact. Though we never spoke of the attack in public, we did discuss it between ourselves, on occasion. Every time we discussed the attack, Admiral Kidd was adamant that it was a deliberate, planned attack on an American ship.
In 1990, I received a telephone call from Jay Cristol, who wanted to interview me concerning the functioning of the Court of Inquiry. I told him that I would not speak to him on that subject and prepared to hang up the telephone. Cristol then began asking me about my personal background and other, non-Court of Inquiry related matters. I endeavored to answer these questions and politely extricate myself from the conversation. Cristol continued to return to the subject of the Court of Inquiry, which I refused to discuss with him. Finally, I suggested that he contact Admiral Kidd and ask him about the Court of Inquiry.
At no time did I ever hear Admiral Kidd speak of Cristol other than in highly disparaging terms. I find Cristol’s claims of a “close friendship†with Admiral Kidd to be utterly incredible. I also find it impossible to believe the statements he attributes to Admiral Kidd, concerning the attack on USS Liberty.
Several years later, I received a letter from Cristol that contained what he purported to be his notes of our prior conversation. These “notes†were grossly incorrect and bore no resemblance in reality to that discussion. I find it hard to believe that these “notes†were the product of a mistake, rather than an attempt to deceive. I informed Cristol that I disagreed with his recollection of our conversation and that he was wrong. Cristol made several attempts to arrange for the two of us to meet in person and talk but I always found ways to avoid doing this. I did not wish to meet with Cristol as we had nothing in common and I did not trust him.
Contrary to the misinformation presented by Cristol and others, it is important for the American people to know that it is clear that Israel is responsible for deliberately attacking an American ship and murdering American sailors, whose bereaved shipmates have lived with this egregious conclusion for many years.
Dated: January 9, 2004
at Coronado, California.
Ward Boston, Jr., Captain, JAGC, USN (Ret.)
Senior Counsel to the USS Liberty Court of Inquiry

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The Blow Back From a Nightmare in the Mediterranean

Posted: Jan 16th, 2008
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6th in the LIBERTY series "It was God that kept us afloat"

During the last few days of 2007, Ron Kukal the Chaplain of the USS Liberty Veteran's Association and retired CT [Communications Technician] First Class and the Petty Officer in charge of the crew who recovered the remains of the 34 Americans who were murdered on June 8, 1967, and I conversed on phone and email about our frustrations of being labeled anti-Semitic when ever we speak up about the injustices the secular state and apartheid regime of Israel has been allowed to get away with. While I have only been speaking up for the last two and a half years, the old canard of 'anti-Semitic' has been hurled at me a multitude of times, but Ron and the survivors of that other day in infamy have endured that blasphemy for four decades.

Ron informed this civilian journalist, "For the last forty years I have taken offense to all the people who have labeled us LIBERTY Vet's anti-Semites just for trying to get an open transparent Congressional investigation to what happened to us on June 8, 1967, which was my nightmare in the Mediterranean.

"Before going on board the LIBERTY, every last CT underwent a thorough back ground check by the FBI. We were totally trusted and referred to as the elite of the Navy; we all were totally committed to the USA. The FBI went back two, maybe three generations checking us all out. They knew my grandparents came from Prague. They mingled in my hometown for days talking to everyone who knew anything about me. Family, neighbors, classmates all gave their input and I was given Top Secret Clearance.



"A CT handles the most sensitive information and our government trusted us implicitly! Our instructors made it perfectly clear that we were the elite of the Navy and a racist would never qualify for Top Secret Clearance!

"I cannot in good conscience leave this world without telling the truth about what happened on June 8, 1967 and the Court of Inquiry never gave me a chance! For forty years we survivors have been waiting for Congress to allow us to speak on the record and have been denied this right of freedom of speech!

"My motivation for speaking about that day is to give all the glory to God for keeping us alive. It may be possible that the only reason God saved the LIBERTY was so that we could tell our story. The LIBERTY was sailing 15 miles off the coast in international waters when the Israeli Defense Force attacked us. We were subjected to torpedoes, 50 caliber machine gun fire, napalm, and rocket fire. There were over 800 holes in the LIBERTY after the attack and we were on fire in many places. Thirty-four men were killed and close to 70% of the crew were wounded, of which I was one."

Ron was one of the men who were below the water line when the only torpedo hit the USS LIBERTY, an unarmed spy ship that Israel brutally attacked and the USA government not only failed to protect, but did not even come to the aid of until the day after.



"Looking back before I boarded the LIBERTY, I remember having an ominous feeling that followed me like a dark cloud. It entered my mind as I was about to be deployed for the second time to the African Coast. Our first trip to Africa was pretty much uneventful, and we spent Christmas of 1966 in the port of Abidjan parked in front of a British freighter. Of course we got together with the British on Christmas, and the partying went well into the night of Christmas Eve and on into Christmas Day. Had I only known then, what was about to happen on my second deployment, I might have found a way off the LIBERTY.

"I was acutely aware of Jean Dixon's prediction concerning the LIBERTY . Although I do not remember her exact words, they were meant to warn us of impending disaster on our up coming voyage to Africa. I tried to put her words behind me. After all what did she know, or how could she know anything?"

In Assault On The LIBERTY, by survivor Jim Ennis, he states that a prophecy by Jean Dixon that the LIBERTY was going to sink had been read by some of the sailors in The National Enquirer, but the tabloid was unable to locate it in its archives. In a letter to Ennis from Dixon on October 30, 1974, she denied that she had ever made any prediction at all about the LIBERTY . "Nevertheless, the belief was widely held among the crew that a prophecy had been made, and the belief contributed to a feeling of unrest in the ship."-Page 14.





Ron has maintained for forty years, "For what seemed like an eternity many miracles occurred during, and after the attack. The only armament we had was 50 caliber machine guns, and they were like peashooters against the French built Mirage jets that attacked us. It was a miracle that those planes didn't sink us. Then the torpedo boats bore down on us, with one thing in mind, and that was to put us to the bottom of the Mediterranean. Only one torpedo found its mark and this was the second miracle that I witnessed that day, the first being our surviving of the onslaught by the jet aircraft.

"That torpedo hit the Liberty almost amidships on the starboard side, and I was approximately thirty feet from the explosion. There were a couple of bulkheads between the explosion, and myself but they were like paper to the several tons of TNT that tore up the bowels of the Liberty . What had been several compartments were turned into one big room in a very short time. I was immediately immersed in sea water, and it was rising fast to the point where it would be above my head in a short time, and even though I could swim, the compartment would soon become completely full, and there would be no place to go. The hatch to the above deck was closed, and dogged down, and so my life again depended completely on what God would do. Just before the compartment became fully flooded the hatch above me was opened to let as many of us as possible out of there before we became a part of a watery grave. This was the third miracle that I saw that day and as I ran to get to the main deck, I was slipping and sliding because of the water and blood that was awash within each passageway.

"The fourth miracle occurred when I was exposed to the machine gun fire on the main deck. Every antenna we had was shot to pieces except one, and it had never worked very well. One of the radiomen told me that he tried several times to call for help, and finally when he realized that all the antenna were shot, he switched to the one that had always given him trouble, and when it was needed, it worked! We were able to call the Sixth Fleet, and notify them of our predicament through that an antenna and that was the fifth miracle.

"The attack had gone on for two hours and we had lost our steering control yet, we were able to steer the ship manually, and made it to the island of Malta and to dry dock. This was almost a one thousand mile journey and we were on a ship that had a forty by forty-foot hole in her side, was on fire, and riddled with holes! This was the sixth miracle that happened in my nightmare on the Med.

"In Malta , I was in charge of the crew that went down below to recover and identify the deceased. I know that God gave me the strength to go and do what was expected of me. Let it suffice to say that, under the conditions, only men that were strengthened, and held up by God himself would be able to enter that dark area down below.

"I had been heavily sedated those first three days after the attack. I had injured my back while in the flooded spaces and once we docked in Malta, I hurt my back again from lifting up all those water logged bodies.

"I was discharged in August 1967 and went home and lived in a bottle; I drank to self medicate and would wake up in the middle of the night in rages, thrashing, hollering and screaming. My first wife put up with it all and I kept drinking. I spent forty-four days in the Hot Springs VA Hospital and they diagnosed me with psychoneuroses. Back then, medicine did not yet know about combat stress or Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome. My Dr. thought I was hallucinating when I told him about my nightmare in the Mediterranean. The LIBERTY story was only in the papers for a few days, so very few people knew anything about it. The Dr. called the Navy and got my story verified and he kept me sedated and assumed all my pain was psychological. The technology hadn't yet been developed to diagnose my back injuries.



"I tried college but would wake up with nightmares and disturbed the entire dorm, so I dropped out. I had nobody to talk to about my nightmares on the Med and I was the one who initiated the divorce from my first wife. All I wanted to do was go off by myself and drink.



"I met my second wife who was a nursing student while doing a job in a hospital. I was still drinking and we had four kids and that marriage ended after nine years. It's been tough on my kids and two of them are estranged from me. It's a battle to this day for me to even see my grand kids. I don't know if my kids think I don't love them, or that they are ashamed of me, but this is part of the blow back from my nightmare on the Mediterranean.

"And it all boils down for me that I must get all this out for National Security reasons! Americans need to know all about June 8, 1967 and how our government failed to support the troops.

"In 1981, I found my way into church and ever since, I only drink a limited amount on holidays. I also became a journeymen electrician and worked at it for twenty-five years. I married my third wife in 1991, and things are good.

"With the Internet and a candidate like Ron Paul, I see that the multitudes of Americans who are fed up are speaking out and that's good news. The government of Israel doesn't speak for all Jews and this government of ours doesn't speak for the LIBERTY Vets. America needs to change direction and course, and God willing we the people will make it happen through the World Wide Web."