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Jane Fonda met with protest in Frederick; hopes for open dialogue with Vietnam-era veterans
Frederick News Post ^ | 1/17/2015 | Paige Jones

Posted on 01/18/2015 8:09:41 AM PST by Beave Meister

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.”

Bob Hartman, an Army veteran who served in Vietnam in 1967 and 1968, said he blamed Fonda for breaking off negotiations among the countries and held her responsible for thousands of American lives.

(Excerpt) Read more at fredericknewspost.com ...


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KEYWORDS: democrats; fondatreason; hanoijane; janefonda; liberals; lyingliberalliars; military; militaryveterans; operationtailwind; veterans; vets; vietnam; vietnamvets
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To: Beave Meister

“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.”

How patronizing of her. Especially the weasel words at the end.


61 posted on 01/18/2015 10:36:18 AM PST by headstamp 2
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To: Beave Meister
...I made a huge, huge mistake that made a lot of people think I was against the soldiers.”

Oh, so now it's OUR fault for thinking that you were (are) a traitor?

Stinking piece of crap.

Just go to your grave...to hell with you.

But not to worry...'cause Mr. Bergdahl is going to replace you as a "most hated" amongst soldiers.

62 posted on 01/18/2015 10:37:50 AM PST by OldSmaj (obama is a worthless mohametan. Impeach his ass now!)
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To: Gaffer

Said it before, I’ll say it again: I believe that there are men who are waiting for her to die so they can go pee on her grave...and that they MEAN to do it.


63 posted on 01/18/2015 10:39:07 AM PST by TalBlack (Evil doesn't have a day job.)
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To: Beave Meister

Why would anyone go to a speech given by her? What on earth does she have to say that would interest anyone? Oh! I guess the same lame people who listened to her in the sixties and seventies. Some people never grow up. How soon after 1972 did she say she made a mistake by going to North Vietnam? 42-43 years later, it sort of loses its flavor, doesn’t it???

We can be grateful for one thing - she knew what people thought of her for all those years anyway!


64 posted on 01/18/2015 10:39:10 AM PST by Thank You Rush
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To: EXCH54FE

Hope we both live to hear about it ! Thanks for your reply.


65 posted on 01/18/2015 10:39:19 AM PST by jttpwalsh
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To: Shimmer1

She’s a typical leftist,

“I’m sorry you were insulted by my insult but you shouldn’t have taken it that way.”


66 posted on 01/18/2015 10:39:59 AM PST by headstamp 2
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To: Beave Meister
"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.”

During a time of war Fonda put on a NVA uniform and sat in an anti-aircraft gun and allowed her picture to be made.

Yes....she was, and probably still is, against our troops.

In another time her passport would have been revoked and she would left in Vietnam where in my opinion she belongs.

67 posted on 01/18/2015 11:03:53 AM PST by ealgeone
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To: Beave Meister

It seems bassackwards, in the same month that I was in jump school, Barbarella was in Vietnam.


68 posted on 01/18/2015 11:32:54 AM PST by ansel12 (Civilization, Crusade against the Mohammedan Death Cult.)
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To: Beave Meister

Of course Janie continues to make huge mistakes speaking out agains’t every military operation we undertake.


69 posted on 01/18/2015 12:17:34 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: Beave Meister

Of course Janie continues to make huge mistakes speaking out agains’t every military operation we undertake.


70 posted on 01/18/2015 12:17:34 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: Vehmgericht

She was a supporter of the Cong. I saw he in action.


71 posted on 01/18/2015 4:50:07 PM PST by Nuc 1.1 (Nuc 1 Liberals aren't Patriots. Remember 1789!)
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To: Nuc 1.1

he=her


72 posted on 01/18/2015 4:50:35 PM PST by Nuc 1.1 (Nuc 1 Liberals aren't Patriots. Remember 1789!)
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