I recently got this email and was really curious how true it was(urban legends abound on the net). I know Jane Fonda went to Hanoi, but I don’t know the specifics of her visit. Any comments?
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> >Cliff Urbanas, Jr.
> >Englewood Ohio
> >
> > Looks like Hanoi Jane may be honored as one of the “100 Women of
> >the Century”. JANE FONDA remember? 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 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. 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.