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Do NOT read this unless you are willing to become extremely angry.
Don’t say I didn’t warn you.
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Ok, I warned you. The followning was sent to me by an old friend of mine. I think it is worthy of repeating here although it isn’t directly TF related. However, it definitley relates to Honor - or the lack of same.
This deals with Hanoi Jane Fonda. Read on...
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 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. The first part
of this is from an F-4E pilot. The pilot’s name is Jerry Driscoll, a River Rat.
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.
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-permanently grounding him from the Vietnamese Col’s frenzied
application of wooden baton.
From 1983-85, Col Larry Carrigan was 347FW/DO (F-4Es). He’d 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.
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 rebar 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 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)
I’ve given up on looking for an outpouring of moral outrage over this. But I, for one, will not forget and will certainly never forgive Hanoi Jane. May she burn in hell.
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