Jane Fonda on Vietnam War comments: 'I made a huge, huge mistake'

Stars and Stripes ^ | 2/19/15 | Jones

[pabianice]

Jane Fonda said she hoped for an open dialogue with veterans after about 50 former military members and supporters protested the actress’s appearance Friday evening at the Weinberg Center for the Arts.

“Whenever possible I try to sit down with vets and talk with them, because I understand and it makes me sad,” Fonda told a relatively full theater, responding to a submitted question. “It hurts me and it will to my grave that I made a huge, huge mistake that made a lot of people think I was against the soldiers.”

In 1972 Fonda visited Hanoi, North Vietnam, where she criticized attacks on the dike system along the Red River. A U.S. investigation later revealed the publicity of these bombings as propaganda. Fonda’s statements and a photograph of her sitting on a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft battery outraged many Americans and veterans, leading many to call her “Hanoi Jane” and a “traitor.”

[cqnc]

snopes is a dark-force mouthpiece, Luke

[Covenantor]

Not holding my breath waiting for his response.

Better he’d said nothing, but pompous fools always insert themselves. Sure he’s feeling rather smug about being a better person for not responding.

Stay safe and hold hard.

Cov