I received the following email today. It was sent to me by
ImportantInfo<oqtptei@msn.com>, an address I do not recognize, w/ no name attached. Appropriate timing, but is it true? I was wondering if anybody out there could verify some of the information presented in this missive, especially the incident w/ the slips of paper. I am familiar with some of Ms Fonda’s activities during the war, but I did not think they were so extensive. Anyone got the real scoop?
MESSAGE IN ITS ENTIRETY FOLLOWS (the following views do not necessarily reflect those of the poster):
This is for all the kids born in the 70’s who don’t remember this, and didn’t have to bear the burden, that our fathers, mothers, and older brothers and sisters had to bear. Jane Fonda is being honored as one of the “100 Women of the Century.” Unfortunately, many have forgotten and still countless others have never known specific men
who served and sacrificed during Vietnam. The first part of this is from an F-4E pilot. The pilot’s name is Jerry Driscoll, a River Rat. In 1978, the former Commandant of the USAF Survival School was a 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, 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 1963-65, Col. Larry Carrigan was in 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 of papers. Three men died from the subsequent beatings. Col. Carrigan
was almost number four but he survived, which is the only reason we know about her actions that day. 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, 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 received 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 large amount of steel placed on my hands, and beaten with a bamboo cane till 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. This does not
exemplify someone who should be honored as part of “100 Years of Great Women.” Lest we forget…“100 years of great women” should never include a traitor whose hands are covered with the blood of so many patriots. There are few things I have strong visceral reactions to, but Hanoi Jane’s participation in blatant treason, is one of them. Please take the time to 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.