First is a cut and paste from a transcript of the Barbara Walter's interview.
Barbara Walters: "There are still people who . . . I guess feel you have never apologized. Would you like to just say something to them now?"
Jane Fonda:"Well . . . it's not . . . I would like to say something not just to . . . the Vietnam veterans . . . in New England . . . but . . . to . . . to men who were in Vietnam who . . . who I hurt . . . or who's pain I caused to . . . deepen because of things I said . . . or did . . . I . . . I feel that I owe them an apology . . . my intentions were never to hurt them . . . or to make their situation worse, it was . . . it was the contrary . . . I was trying to help end the war . . . but there were times when I was thoughtless and careless about it and I . . . and I am very sorry . . . that I hurt them . . . and I want to apologize to them and to their families . . . ."
She said something similiar on an A&E Biography show I saw this month but I couldn't find a transcript of that. Sorry.
And this from Oprah Winfrey's "O" Magazine:
Jane Fonda: "I will go to my grave regretting the photograph of me in an anti-aircraft carrier, which looks like I was trying to shoot at American planes. It hurt so many soldiers. It galvanized such hostility. It was the most horrible thing I could possibly have done. It was just thoughtless."
Without doubt she "gave aid and comfort to the enemy" and was a traitor to her country. An apology does not erase that as a fact. It should however IMO, alter our reaction to it.
A person who nurtures hate in their heart hurts themselves far more than the one they hate.
You have a point. However, for those of us who lived through that nightmare, and who vividly remember the film footage of this woman cavorting with our enemies, clapping her hands gleefully like a child while looking around at the stupid N. Vietnamese soldiers who were lavishing attention on her........those memories are as fresh for us as though they were current.
As the old saying goes, "I can forgive, but I can never forget." Memories of great pain are like mental tattoos.
Die lady. Just...die already. Nobody loves you; nobody likes you. Nobody ever did. It's a shame it was your father that went first when it could've been you.