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03/28/2019 13:15

Seneca Falls Town Council

To Whom it May Concern;

It just came to my attention that Jane Fonda has been or is soon to be inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame. It has been 46 years since she traveled to Hanoi to participate in a photo-op propaganda effort on behalf of North Vietnam.

At the time I was 21 years old. At the time and even now today, I consider that to be an act of treason.

We were at war. Not far from where she sat on an NVC anti-aircraft operator’s seat, our men were being held under brutal conditions, many of them tortured over and over. Some had been there for close to five or six years. If memory serves, some of those men were beaten because they refused to take part in Fonda’s event.

Her words and actions were later presented to the men in that POW camp called the Hanoi Hilton. I can only imagine how demoralizing that must have been.

That was providing aid and comfort to the enemy of the United States during a time of open military hostilities between our nations.

While Ms. Fonda has sought to soften the opinions of the public by offering up hollow words of apology, she has never truly acknowledged her actions for what they were.

For these reasons, I must object to any actions by any agency that seeks to honor her.

Today we have a somewhat cordial relationship with Vietnam. I think that is good. I still cannot forget what Ms. Fonda did in the day.

She never received her just rewards for that treachery.

To honor her now, defiles the memories of all the women who have been justly deserving of recognition by the National Women’s Hall of Fame.

I like the mission this group has adopted, but I cannot honor it any longer if it will reward people of the likes of Jane Fonda.

Thank you for your consideration.