How many LITsters were alive on June 5, 1967?

[eyer]

46 years ago today, Israel launched preemptive strikes on the (then) United Arab Republic (now: Egypt), Jordan, and Syria; by June 10, The Six Day War was over and Israel had won control of the Golan Heights from Syria, the West Bank and East Jerusalem from Jordan, and the Gaza Strip and the Sinai Peninsula from Egypt...

...all but the Sinai remain controlled by Israel today.

Israel was loosely (then) allied to Washington...

...while Egypt, Syria, and Jordan were military dependents of the Soviet Union (now: Russia).

The next year in America, a dude named Bobby Kennedy was vying for the Democrat Party nomination for President of the United States when a Palestinian with Jordanian citizenship (and a Christian raised in the US) named Sirhan Sirhan assassinated him...

...the killer claimed he did it because of Kennedy's support for Israel.

I'd never heard of the "PLO" before that day...

...and I've never known peace from "terrorism" since that day.

Israel, Egypt, and Jordon all get billions of dollars a year (plus most of their military goodies) today from the hard work of American taxpayers...

...Syria, of course, is still a military beneficiary of the old Soviet Union.

Same old, friggin' cold war games...

...with the innocents of the proxies paying the most in blood.

 

[Tryharder62]

I was 11 months old.

 

[thirty]

I was -2 years old...

 

[toubab]

I was in the USAF, stationed in Germany, but flying missions in the Mediterranean, among other places, so that day and the following days were interesting for me. I was saddened to learn one of my DLIWC classmates, a Marine, was killed on June 8th in the attack on the USS Liberty.

 

[Dazzle1]

I was 4 years old.

And it is obvious that most of the world has not learned that the forces which attacked Israel which are now the face of islamic terrorism are stilla threat to civilization.

It's time for the world to stop appeasing the Arab nation and force them to make peace and put the leader of Lebanon, Syria and Iran on trial for war crimes

 

[vibes]

Two months old, I'm afraid

 

[oggbashan]

I was alive on June 6, 1944 - D-Day.

Today I remember all those who gave their lives on that day to start the Liberation of Europe.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

I remember it.

 

[unregistered]

 

[unregistered]

 

[Busybody]

I was alive on June 6, 1944 - D-Day.

Today I remember all those who gave their lives on that day to start the Liberation of Europe.

you Sir, are a class act

DESPITE me always ragging on you

ARE A CLASS ACT!

I salute you!

 

[run_silent]

46 years ago today, Israel launched preemptive strikes on the (then) United Arab Republic (now: Egypt), Jordan, and Syria; by June 10, The Six Day War was over and Israel had won control of the Golan Heights from Syria, the West Bank and East Jerusalem from Jordan, and the Gaza Strip and the Sinai Peninsula from Egypt...

...all but the Sinai remain controlled by Israel today.

Israel was loosely (then) allied to Washington...

...while Egypt, Syria, and Jordan were military dependents of the Soviet Union (now: Russia).

The next year in America, a dude named Bobby Kennedy was vying for the Democrat Party nomination for President of the United States when a Palestinian with Jordanian citizenship (and a Christian raised in the US) named Sirhan Sirhan assassinated him...

...the killer claimed he did it because of Kennedy's support for Israel.

I'd never heard of the "PLO" before that day...

...and I've never known peace from "terrorism" since that day.

Israel, Egypt, and Jordon all get billions of dollars a year (plus most of their military goodies) today from the hard work of American taxpayers...

...Syria, of course, is still a military beneficiary of the old Soviet Union.

Same old, friggin' cold war games...

...with the innocents of the proxies paying the most in blood.

I was 4 years old at the time and had no clue about it.

Since you asked the question I researched it. I always thought Israel was attacked and therefore won the spoils of war. I never new it was a preemptive strike.

I am now rethinking everything and need to research further.

 

[tactful]

Yeah, and using M1 to level the playing field.

 

[unregistered]

 

[tactful]

Abrams?

Nope, actually 8 1/2" sticks, red in color, cool stuff for it's time.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

its time



it's time is 4:00 and Miller Time.

 

[JohnnySavage]

I was 3

 

[unregistered]

 

[JohnnySavage]

You need a nap.

It's on the schedule from noon till 1.

 

[Busybody]

I am now rethinking everything and need to research further.

Please do

Get back to us

WE CAN HARDLY WAIT

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

When they waited to attack in the 70s, they almost lost and then, in the 90s, they cut the attack short in Lebanon to please the international Pro Paly crowd and put themselves in an even worse situation...

Now, our government is the pro-paly crowd too!

 

[tactful]

When they waited to attack in the 70s, they almost lost and then, in the 90s, they cut the attack short in Lebanon to please the international Pro Paly crowd and put themselves in an even worse situation...

Now, our government is the pro-paly crowd too!

Gotta love politics, such a nice thing.

 

[PeteHulbert37]

Are we supposed to guess the actual number?


491

 

[evesdream]

I wasn't born, but I have some sense of the history you're describing.

 

[imalickin]

I was a junior in high school...worried more at the time about the junior prom and who would ask me. Although I do remember the news casts at the time, but only those on the seventh day and after.

I remember the assassination of Bobby Kennedy and who did it, not the reason he did it. I was busy with graduation and the senior prom.

Youth...to be that young again would be wonderful, yet I have had a full life.