Gale McMillan
Member In Memoriam
This is something you may not want to post but I felt it was for a good cause.
-Date: Monday, October 18, 1999 7:27 PM
Subject: Forgiveness Ain't On the Menu
>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 wooden baton.
>
>>From 1983-85, Col Larry Carrigan was the 347FW/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. For years after their release, a group of determined former
>POWs Including Col Carrigan, tried to bring Ms. Fonda and others up on
>charges of treason. I don't know that they used it, but the charge of
>"Negligent Homicide due to Depraved Indifference" would also seem
>appropriate. Her obvious "granting of aid and comfort to the enemy",
>alone, should've been sufficient for the treason count. However, to date,
>Jane Fonda has never been formally charged with anything and continues to
>enjoy the privileged life of the rich and famous. I, personally, think
>that this is shame on us, the American Citizenry. Part of our shortfall is
>ignorance: most don't know such actions ever took place. Thought you might
>appreciate the knowledge. Most of you've probably already seen this by
>now, only addition I might add to these sentiments is to remember the
>satisfaction of relieving myself into the urinal at some airbase or another
>where "zaps" of Hanoi Jane's face had been applied.
>
>To whom it may concern:
>I was a civilian economic development advisor in Vietnam, and was captured
>by the North Vietnamese communists in South Vietnam 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, SouthVietnam, 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. She
>was mind controlled by her husband. This does not exemplify someone who
>should be honored as "100 Years of Great Women."
>
>After I was released, I was asked what I thought of Jane Fonda and the
>anti-war movement. I said that I held Joan Baez's husband in very high
>regard, for he thought the war was wrong, burned his draft card and went to
>prison in protest. If the other anti-war protesters took this same route,
>it would have brought our judicial system to a halt and ended the war much
>earlier, and there wouldn't be as many on that somber black granite wall
>called the Vietnam Memorial. This is democracy. This is the American way.
>
>Jane Fonda, on the other hand, chose to be a traitor, and went to Hanoi,
>wore their uniform, propagandized for the communists, and urged American
>soldiers to desert. As we were being tortured, and some of the POWs
>murdered, she called us liars. After her heroes-the North Vietnamese
>communists-took over South Vietnam, they systematically murdered 80,000
>South Vietnamese political prisoners. May their souls rest on her head
>forever. Shame! Shame! (History is a heavy sword in the hands of those
>who refuse to forget it. Think of this the next time you see Ms.
>Fonda-Turner at a Braves game).
>
>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" Jane
>Fonda should never be considered.
>
-Date: Monday, October 18, 1999 7:27 PM
Subject: Forgiveness Ain't On the Menu
>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 wooden baton.
>
>>From 1983-85, Col Larry Carrigan was the 347FW/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. For years after their release, a group of determined former
>POWs Including Col Carrigan, tried to bring Ms. Fonda and others up on
>charges of treason. I don't know that they used it, but the charge of
>"Negligent Homicide due to Depraved Indifference" would also seem
>appropriate. Her obvious "granting of aid and comfort to the enemy",
>alone, should've been sufficient for the treason count. However, to date,
>Jane Fonda has never been formally charged with anything and continues to
>enjoy the privileged life of the rich and famous. I, personally, think
>that this is shame on us, the American Citizenry. Part of our shortfall is
>ignorance: most don't know such actions ever took place. Thought you might
>appreciate the knowledge. Most of you've probably already seen this by
>now, only addition I might add to these sentiments is to remember the
>satisfaction of relieving myself into the urinal at some airbase or another
>where "zaps" of Hanoi Jane's face had been applied.
>
>To whom it may concern:
>I was a civilian economic development advisor in Vietnam, and was captured
>by the North Vietnamese communists in South Vietnam 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, SouthVietnam, 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. She
>was mind controlled by her husband. This does not exemplify someone who
>should be honored as "100 Years of Great Women."
>
>After I was released, I was asked what I thought of Jane Fonda and the
>anti-war movement. I said that I held Joan Baez's husband in very high
>regard, for he thought the war was wrong, burned his draft card and went to
>prison in protest. If the other anti-war protesters took this same route,
>it would have brought our judicial system to a halt and ended the war much
>earlier, and there wouldn't be as many on that somber black granite wall
>called the Vietnam Memorial. This is democracy. This is the American way.
>
>Jane Fonda, on the other hand, chose to be a traitor, and went to Hanoi,
>wore their uniform, propagandized for the communists, and urged American
>soldiers to desert. As we were being tortured, and some of the POWs
>murdered, she called us liars. After her heroes-the North Vietnamese
>communists-took over South Vietnam, they systematically murdered 80,000
>South Vietnamese political prisoners. May their souls rest on her head
>forever. Shame! Shame! (History is a heavy sword in the hands of those
>who refuse to forget it. Think of this the next time you see Ms.
>Fonda-Turner at a Braves game).
>
>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" Jane
>Fonda should never be considered.
>