BARBRA WALTERS' "100 Women of the Century." (Jane Fonda?)

[DogBarkTree]

I got this in an email today and was hoping someone with more knowledge on the subject than me could verify if this account of her visit to a POW camp is true. If true, then Hanoi Hilton alumni should do the Swift Boat thing on Hanoi Jane.

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Jane Fonda is being honored as one of the "100 Women of the Century." BY BARBRA WALTERS

Unfortunately, many have forgotten and still countless others have never known how Ms. Fonda betrayed not only the idea of our country, but 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 1968, 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 PJ's, 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 was dragged away. During the subsequent beating, he fell forward on to the camp Commandant's feet, which sent that officer berserk.

In 1978, the Air Force Colonel still suffered from double vision (which permanently ended his flying career) from the Commandant's frenzied application of a wooden baton.

From 1963-65, Col. Larry Carrigan was in the 47FW/DO (F-4E's). He spent 6 years in the "Hanoi Hilton",,, the first three of which his family only knew he was "missing in action". His wife lived on faith that he was still alive. His group, too, got the cleaned-up, fed and 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 were alive and still survived. Each man secreted a tiny piece of paper, with his Social Security Number 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 all the little pieces of paper.

Three men died from the subsequent beatings. Colonel Carrigan was almost number four but he survived, which is the only reason we know of 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 prisoner 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 weighed only about 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 her.

I said yes, for I wanted to tell her about the real treatment we POWs received... and how different it was from the treatment purported by the North Vietnamese, and parroted by her as "humane and lenient."

Because of this, I spent three days on a rocky floor on my knees, with my arms outstretched with a large steel weights placed on my hands, and beaten with a bamboo cane.

I had the opportunity to meet with Jane Fonda soon after I was released. I asked her if she would be willing to debate me on TV. She never did answer me.

These first-hand experiences do 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. RONALD D. SAMPSON, CMSgt, USAF 716 Maintenance Squadron, Chief of Maintenance DSN: 875-6431 COMM: 883-6343

[Patrick1]

I knew it was a bad century but jeez...not that bad.

[TruthWillWin]

Mary Jo Kopechne has got to be high up on that list.

[FreeInWV]

Some of this has been refuted on snopes, but I'm sure there is some truth somewhere in it.

[USMCWife6869]

I'm sure that someone else will post this faster than me because my computer sucks, but here it is anyway:

http://www.snopes.com/military/fonda.asp

[Dilbert San Diego]

I wonder if the recently deceased Jeane Kirkpatrick is on that list of Barbara Walters?

Or Margaret Thatcher? Wonder if it's just American women so Thatcher wouldn't qualify?

I wonder what the criteria would be to be included on the list? Liberal activism? Wonder if Cindy Sheehan made the cut?

[beltfed308]

http://www.snopes.com/military/fonda.asp claims the Driscoll incident never happened.

[Tenacious 1]

The story about handing her peices of paper have been debunked. But she did visit prisons where American's were held. I do not know about the others.

Still, my Christian values and the teachings of Christ prevent me from saying or wishing certain things on this unspeakably vial heap of decaying waste of a human being/animal.

[Dilbert San Diego]

Is Jane Fonda a Christian now? I thought she had converted?

[SMARTY]

Since it Barbara Walters' list, it is an honor just to be omitted.

[timsbella]

She's still known to vacation with the devil (Ted Turner), so I rather doubt it unless she's in a left leaning, non denominational sect.

[Tenacious 1]

[Is Jane Fonda a Christian now? I thought she had converted?]

I shudder to ponder and would never spend the time to investigate. While I am not allowed to hate or pass judgement on the destination of one's soul, I can "presume" there is an eternally warm and miserable place for her in the afterlife. And this presumption makes me feel a little better.

[DogBarkTree]

Thank you ma'am. You were the first to post it.

[Pan_Yans Wife]

The century, as in 1900's? This must be as slow as molasses when making its way on the web. It's already 2006.

[Lijahsbubbe]

Jane Fonda is being honored as one of the "100 Women of the Century."

Well it doesn't say what kind of women.....

[Dilbert San Diego]

I sure would love to see the list. And I wonder what the criteria are. What type of achievement or fame or whatever makes someone one of the 100 Women of the Century? I suspect that liberal activism of some kind will make one a candidate.

Is Phyllis Shlafly(sp?) included? She was one of the most famous and politically active women in the world. But she worked against NOW and the Equal Rights Amendment and other liberal causes. So that's why I wonder what type of achievement are they honoring?

[Dixie Yooper]

It must not be much of a list, Rosie O'Donnell also made it.

[Lijahsbubbe]

I sure would love to see the list.

Let's take a wild guess:

Hilary Clinton
Janet Reno
Katie Couric
Jackie Kennedy
Eleanor Roosevelt
Gloria Steinem
Margaret Sanger....

[xjcsa]

Jane Fonda is an atrocious bitch, but the slips of paper part never happened. There's plenty of reason to despise her as a traitor; we don't need to make things up as well.

[Dan Walsh]

Walters had a 1999 special listing: Actresses, comediennes, and singers: Janis Joplin, Lucille Ball, Carol Burnett, Katharine Hepburn, Oprah Winfrey, Jane Fonda, Madonna, Bette Midler, Rosie O’Donnell, Vivien Leigh, Hattie McDaniel, Jessye Norman, Maria Callas, Marilyn Monroe, Celine Dion, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Marian Anderson, Greta Garbo, Lauren Bacall ...

Artists Georgia O'Keeffe and Frida Kahlo. Photographers Margaret Bourke-White and Dorothea Lange. Dancers Martha Graham and Isadora Duncan. Poet Maya Angelou. Writer Ann Landers.

Sports figures "Babe" Didrickson, Gertrude Ederle, Sonja Henie, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Wilma Rudolph, Billie Jean King, Chris Evert, Nadia Comenici.

Aviator Amelia Earhart and astronaut Lt. Eileen Collins. Scientist Marie Curie. Fashion designer Coco Chanel. Executive Katharine Graham. The created figure of Rosie the Riveter.

Women known for their activism or political involvements: Gloria Steinem, editor of Ms. Magazine, Rosa Parks, Margaret Sanger, Jane Addams, Ann Richards, Alice Paul, Helen Keller, Annie Sullivan, Rachel Carson, Betty Friedan, Phyllis Schlafly, Marian Wright Edelman, Anita Hill (the transcript calls her Anita Thomas at one point!), Mother Teresa, Margaret Mead, Madeleine Albright.

First Ladies Eleanor Roosevelt, Jacqueline Kennedy, Betty Ford and Hillary Rodham Clinton. Princess Diana. Heads of state Indira Gandhi, Golda Meir, and Margaret Thatcher.

And, though she professes embarrassment to be included: Barbara Walters.

LINK: http://womenshistory.about.com/od/lists/a/walters_100_wmn.htm