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Remembering CT1 John Smith, KIA, USS Liberty
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Jerry Smith recalls the day his brother John was killed aboard the USS Liberty in the eastern Mediterranean. He says he’ll never forget June 8, 1967.
By Stephen Landesman
Ithica Journal Staff, 2001
“I still get upset and choked up about it,” Smith said Tuesday by telephone from Rochester.
Smith’s brother, 24-year-old John C. Smith Jr., a graduate of Ithaca High School, was killed along with 33 other U.S. seamen on the Liberty when Israeli jets and torpedo boats attacked the Navy surveillance vessel at the height of the Six-Day War between Israel and the Arab states.
By Stephen Landesman
Ithica Journal Staff, 2001
“I still get upset and choked up about it,” Smith said Tuesday by telephone from Rochester.
Smith’s brother, 24-year-old John C. Smith Jr., a graduate of Ithaca High School, was killed along with 33 other U.S. seamen on the Liberty when Israeli jets and torpedo boats attacked the Navy surveillance vessel at the height of the Six-Day War between Israel and the Arab states.
Remembering CT1 John Smith, KIA, USS Liberty
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
..."“I knew John well,” Fauls said on Tuesday. “We’d gone to grade school together and then Ithaca High. After that, we stayed in touch over the years. I remember when he returned to Ithaca on leave in the winter of ’66 with his wife and young daughter. He was still up in the air about whether to make the Navy his career. He told me the Navy would be giving him extensive training before sending him back to sea for a new assignment.”
The extensive training was communications school, the assignment the USS Liberty.
Smith’s wife, Sandra Ann, and daughter, Stephanie, returned to Sandra’s native England after his death.
Mary Pace, 48, who lives in Fall Creek and works in information services at Cornell University, was 13 when her brother John was killed.
“I was at a friend’s house when mother heard the news,” Mary said. “She called me to come home, and when I got there, all the cousins from Syracuse were at the house. Everybody was watching television. They didn’t know whether John was dead or alive. On Friday, my mom received a telegram saying John was missing in action. Then, on Sunday morning, Navy personnel drove up to our house to tell us he was dead.”
Like Fauls, Mary remembered John’s leave Thanksgiving of 1966.
“Johnny came home and that’s the first time I met his daughter, Stephanie,” said Mary Pace. “He came back again for Christmas before leaving for his new assignment in Norfolk, Va."
..."“I knew John well,” Fauls said on Tuesday. “We’d gone to grade school together and then Ithaca High. After that, we stayed in touch over the years. I remember when he returned to Ithaca on leave in the winter of ’66 with his wife and young daughter. He was still up in the air about whether to make the Navy his career. He told me the Navy would be giving him extensive training before sending him back to sea for a new assignment.”
The extensive training was communications school, the assignment the USS Liberty.
Smith’s wife, Sandra Ann, and daughter, Stephanie, returned to Sandra’s native England after his death.
Mary Pace, 48, who lives in Fall Creek and works in information services at Cornell University, was 13 when her brother John was killed.
“I was at a friend’s house when mother heard the news,” Mary said. “She called me to come home, and when I got there, all the cousins from Syracuse were at the house. Everybody was watching television. They didn’t know whether John was dead or alive. On Friday, my mom received a telegram saying John was missing in action. Then, on Sunday morning, Navy personnel drove up to our house to tell us he was dead.”
Like Fauls, Mary remembered John’s leave Thanksgiving of 1966.
“Johnny came home and that’s the first time I met his daughter, Stephanie,” said Mary Pace. “He came back again for Christmas before leaving for his new assignment in Norfolk, Va."
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RIP -- name's on the wall
https://www.nsa.gov/History/National-Cryptologic-Memorial/
https://www.nsa.gov/History/National-Cryptologic-Memorial/
National Security Agency/Central Security Service > History > National Cryptologic...
About the National Cryptologic Memorial dedicated to honor and remember those who gave their lives, "serving in silence," in the line of duty.
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