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'I have so little time left!' Jane Fonda, 76, she comes to terms with her own mortality
The London Daily Mail ^ | February 24, 2014 | Colette Fahy

Posted on 02/24/2014 7:55:51 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

She may not look anywhere near her 76 years but Jane Fonda says she is well aware of her age.

The Hollywood legend – who has made her career in an industry which isn't exactly kind to aging actresses - admits she has been brought to tears on more than one occasion recently as she comes to terms with her own mortality.

In a thoughtful blog post entitled 'Crying', which has since been removed, Jane wrote: '[I've been thinking], how come my tears are so close to the surface? And I’ve come to feel it has to do with age. I have become so wonderfully, terribly aware of time, of how little of it I have left; how much of it is behind me, and everything becomes so precious (sic).'

Despite Jane worrying about her mortality, she believes getting older has its advantages, namely allowing her to appreciate the beauty in the world.

She said: 'With age, I am able to appreciate the beauty in small things more than when I was younger perhaps because I pay attention more.

'I feel myself becoming part of everything. I seem to be super sensitive to people's joy and pain. I ache for unwanted children in the world, for polars bears, and elephants, and Monarch butterflies, and dolphins, gorillas and chimpanzees (sic).'

Most recently Jane found herself becoming emotional at her friend Kerry Washington’s baby shower on Sunday.

She wrote: 'Today I was at Kerry Washington’s baby shower. She's 7 months pregnant and looking radiant.

'It was a wonderful party with guests being asked to go into a photo booth and take 6 different poses that were then mounted on a black paper where we could write a message....

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: elderly; hanoijane; hollywood; janefonda; peacecreeps; seniors; traitor; vietnam
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

At that she’s had a lot more time than the thousands of young troops she helped get killed in Vietnam....


61 posted on 02/24/2014 8:52:59 PM PST by Intolerant in NJ
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To: meatloaf

You probably wish you will look that good at 76!


62 posted on 02/24/2014 8:53:27 PM PST by dalereed
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63 posted on 02/24/2014 8:53:47 PM PST by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: dalereed
Thanks, but no thanks. I'll go with old and decrepit rather than old and skanky.
64 posted on 02/24/2014 8:56:31 PM PST by meatloaf (Impeach Obama. That's my New Year's resolution.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

65 posted on 02/24/2014 8:56:34 PM PST by Albion Wilde (The less a man knows, the more certain he is that he knows it all.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

66 posted on 02/24/2014 8:56:34 PM PST by Albion Wilde (The less a man knows, the more certain he is that he knows it all.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I know many 'Nam Vets who have been saving up their *sorrow* ]<- [for mature audiences only] for when she passes.
67 posted on 02/24/2014 8:57:17 PM PST by Daffynition ("If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right." ~ Henry Ford)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I was on a Tin Can providing NGFS (naval gun fire support)a few miles off the coast of Vietnam when this picture was taken. July of 1972.


68 posted on 02/24/2014 8:59:58 PM PST by longhorn too
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To: longhorn too

I wonder if the swimmer asked forgiveness for killing Maryjo before he went.

Same for this hag.


69 posted on 02/24/2014 9:01:29 PM PST by bicyclerepair (TERM LIMITS .......... TERM LIMITS .......... TERM LIMITS)
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To: GeronL
Are we supposed to feel sorry for nasty, horrible people?

Yep. I think Jesus said it best when he said "Father forgive them, for they do not know what they do."

I believe he was talking about some pretty nasty, horrible people at the time.

70 posted on 02/24/2014 9:12:00 PM PST by BRK
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I take it she’s worried about where she’s going. I would be if I were her, after all the wrong she did our troops.


71 posted on 02/24/2014 9:12:06 PM PST by CorporateStepsister (I am NOT going to force a man to make my dreams come true)
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To: Rembrandt

I wonder just how gross and diseased her grave will become once she dies and others are done pizzing on her grave. I wonder if the grave diggers will do a little preliminary peeing on her coffin before they start throwing the dirt in, with an occasional bathroom break right into her grave.


72 posted on 02/24/2014 9:13:34 PM PST by CorporateStepsister (I am NOT going to force a man to make my dreams come true)
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To: BRK

I’m not half the decent person Christ was. In fact, Christ was divine and no one can measure up.


73 posted on 02/24/2014 9:15:31 PM PST by CorporateStepsister (I am NOT going to force a man to make my dreams come true)
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To: P-Marlowe

Like most spoiled bitches she thinks she has it rough right now.


74 posted on 02/24/2014 9:16:37 PM PST by CorporateStepsister (I am NOT going to force a man to make my dreams come true)
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To: ansel12

Good grief, she sounds like Shirley MacClaine.


75 posted on 02/24/2014 9:17:12 PM PST by bboop (does not suffer fools gladly)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Go see The Wall, my dear, and reflect that you’ve had four more decades than the men you cursed. Go to your grave knowing that you are despised by their survivors. Make your peace with God, with me you’ll have none.


76 posted on 02/24/2014 9:25:49 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: awelliott

(BTW, did you know he served in Vietnam?
= = = = = = = = = = =
So did Fonda.....

Don’t get me wrong, I have absolutely NO use for Kerry - in reality he goes right up there with the Draft Dodgers etc as far as being despised.

In an essence, part of my response was due to the statement of the person I was responding to inre ‘a person that believes doesn’t wish Hell on anyone’....

All I try to remember is ALL of these AWIPES will answer to a higher power some day AND they have to live with themselves every day.


77 posted on 02/24/2014 9:29:12 PM PST by xrmusn (6/98 --When you have them by the short hairs, the minds and hearts soon follow.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I seem to be super sensitive to people’s joy and pain. I ache for unwanted children in the world, for polars bears, and elephants, and Monarch butterflies, and dolphins, gorillas and chimpanzees (sic).’
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and do you ever regret and have a sensitive thought about the pain you caused the American troops in Vietnam ???


78 posted on 02/24/2014 9:30:06 PM PST by Tennessee Nana
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To: BRK

I always step back and respect vets’ freedom to express whatever feelings they have for this woman.

Get your hands on some facts about this situation.

Some people unwittingly compare her to Ted Kennedy. You can bet they don’t know the story.

She refuses to own up to what she did. If she would, and would also take the just punishment, she’d have peace.

She is a world class propagandist, believing her own versions of the story.

Find a good rendition of it.

Read one of the many true accounts written by the former POWs. And consider that anyone who goes through six years of torture alongside his friends/brothers going through the same, has had most of the vice it takes to utter a lie squeezed out of hime if it were ever there to begin with.


79 posted on 02/24/2014 9:37:14 PM PST by stanne
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

She only has a little time left. But she has enough time to apologize to all the Viet Nam POWs.


80 posted on 02/24/2014 9:37:32 PM PST by VerySadAmerican (".....Barrack, and the horse Mohammed rode in on.")
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