Funny this should be brought up. Received the following email just a couple of days ago.
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This was sent to me and I thought it worth passing on.
Subject: Interesting viewpoint on "Women of the Century".. worth
reading.
Many of us over 50 remember that during the Viet Nam war Jane
Fonda opposed the war, as many others, but she went to Viet Nam and
embarrassed the U.S. Government and the prisoners of war by her
actions. Many of these actions are spelled out below. It is
appalling that her actions have been forgotten and that she may be
honored as one of the "100 Women of the Century." The text that
follows was sent to me, and I believe it needs disbursing.
Subject: HANOI JANE
Looks like Hanoi Jane may be honored as one of the "100 Women of
the Century". JANE FONDA remembered? Unfortunately many have
forgotten and still countless others have never known how Ms. Fonda
betrayed not only the idea of our "country" but the men
who served and sacrificed during Vietnam.
There are few things I have strong visceral reactions to, but
Jane Fonda's participation in what I believe to be blatant treason,
is one of them.
Part of my conviction comes from exposure to those who suffered
her attentions.
The first part of this is from an F-4E pilot. The pilot's name is
Jerry Driscoll, a River Rat. In 1978, the Commandant of the USAF
Survival School was a former POW in Ho Lo Prison-the "Hanoi Hilton".
Dragged from a stinking cesspit of a cell, cleaned, fed, and dressed
in clean PJs, he was ordered to describe for a visiting American
"Peace Activist" the "lenient and humane treatment" he'd
received. He spat at Ms. Fonda, was clubbed, and dragged away. During
the subsequent beating, he fell forward upon the camp Commandant's
feet, accidentally pulling the man's shoe off-which sent that officer
berserk. In '78, the AF Col. still suffered from double vision (which
permanently ended his flying days) from the Vietnamese Col.'s
frenzied application of a wooden baton.
From 1983-85, Col. Larry Carrigan was the 47FW/DO (F-4Es). He
spent 6 years in the "Hilton"-the first three of which he was
"missing in action". His wife lived on faith that he was still alive. His group,
too, got the cleaned/fed/clothed routine in preparation for a "peace
delegation" visit. They, however, had time and devised a plan to get word
to the world that they still survived. Each man secreted a tiny piece of paper,
with his SSN on it, in the palm of his hand. When paraded before Ms.
Fonda and a cameraman, she walked the line, shaking each man's
hand and asking little encouraging snippets like: "Aren't you
Sorry you bombed babies?" and "Are you grateful for the humane
treatment from your benevolent captors?" Believing this HAD to be an act,
they each palmed her their sliver of paper. She took them all without
missing a beat. At the end of the line and once the camera
stopped rolling, to the shocked disbelief of the POWs, she turned to
the officer in charge... and handed him the little pile. Three men died
from the subsequent beatings. Col. Carrigan was almost number four.
To whom it may concern:
I was a civilian economic development advisor in Viet Nam, and was
captured by the North Vietnamese communists in South Viet Nam in
1968, and held for over 5 years. I spent 27 months in solitary
confinement, one year in a cage in Cambodia, and one year in a
"black box" in Hanoi. My North Vietnamese captors deliberately poisoned
and murdered a female missionary, a nurse in a leprosarium in
Ban me Thuot, South Vietnam, whom I buried in the jungle near the
Cambodian border. At one time, I was weighing approximately 90 lbs.
(My normal weight is 170 lbs.) We were Jane Fonda's "war criminals."
When Jane Fonda was in Hanoi, I was asked by the camp communist political
officer if I would be willing to meet with Jane Fonda. I said yes, for I
would like to tell her about the real treatment we POWs were receiving,
which was far different from the treatment purported by the North
Vietnamese, and parroted by Jane Fonda, as "humane and lenient."
Because of this, I spent three days on a rocky floor on my knees
with outstretched arms with a piece of steel placed on my hands, and
beaten with a bamboo cane every time my arms dipped. I had the
opportunity to meet with Jane Fonda for a couple of hours after I was
released. I asked her if she would be willing to debate me on TV.
She did not answer me, her former husband, Tom Hayden, answered for
her.
This does not exemplify someone who should be honored as "100
years of Great Women."
Please take the time to read and forward to as many people as you
possibly can. It will eventually end up on her computer and she
needs to know that "we will never forget". Lest we forget..."100 years of
great women"
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Please copy and paste and email to anyone you know.
Bill
