Posted on 05/27/2006 10:45:49 PM PDT by garylmoore
She really was a traitor
A TRAITOR IS ABOUT TO BE HONORED KEEP THIS MOVING ACROSS AMERICA
This is for all the kids born in the 70's who do not remember, and didn't have to bear the burden that our fathers, mothers and older brothers and sisters had to bear.
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, i n! 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
discredited chain letter
Please
pictures like this one remind me of the modern media.
yes, Celine Dion... she was at the top of my list :) /s
And we should be surprised by this? I'm not. There are many in our society today that could be put in the same classification of traitor and they are revered in their jobs. Congressmen, news media and the ACLU for starters.
Here is the break down on what is truthful and what is false from this e-mail (according to a site, whose credibility I can't vouch for):
Jane Fonda was honored by Barbara Walters in her special on ABC by being one of the top 100 most influential women of the century on April 30, 1999. True
The passing of slips of papers to Jane Fonda and subsequent beatings that caused the death of three men is False
The story about LTC Jerry Driscoll is False
The story about Col. Larry Carrigan is False.
The story about the civilian (Michael Benge) is True.
http://www.1stcavmedic.com/jane_fonda_urban_legends.htm
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I looked elsewhere too and the FACT that she WAS honored as one of the top 100 women of the 20th century IS TRUE.
http://www.3rdmarines.net/Vietnam_jane_fonda_Hanoi_radio.htm
This is also forgotten.
You should have clicked on that "snopes" link in post #10.
No requirement in either the Constitution or federal law states that the U.S. must be engaged in a declared war, or any war at all, before charges of treason can be brought against an individual.
You are island of sanity surrounded by waves of hysteria.
I guess most of the time, you can only believe part of what you read or hear with all news stories. Who's to know what's true unless you were there? But there was reliable witnesses and pictures to prove that she WAS a traitor. I got my point across.
it's amazing (and depressing)that this mentality has survived to this day.
What do you want us to do, forgive & forget her? She has not repented.
Please what? Look, I don't like Fonda any more than you do. I'm with you in letting people know why. That letter is full of urban legends, however.
I think it's a hyper legalism that doesn't align with American history to claim that Vietnam was not a war.
LOL. For me, it is irrelevant whether true or false.
I still detest Jane Fonda.
Barbara Walters still makes me want to hurl whenever I hear her voice!
Please what? Look, I don't like Fonda any more than you do. I'm with you in letting people know why. That letter is full of urban legends, however.
OK
For her - there just ain't no getting around that Anti Aircraft Gun picture taken in VN. That one picture says it all.
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