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Jane Fonda is being honored as one of the "100 Women of the Century."

From Michael, on Sun, 04 Nov 2001 03:52:41 GMT

Under the heading of "..kiss my mofo grits..":

  KEEP THIS MOVING ACROSS AMERICA--HONORING A
  TRAITOR
  This is for all the kids born in the 70's that do not
  remember this, 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."
  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 1978, 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
  PJs, 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 dragged
  away.
  During the subsequent beating, he fell forward upon the
  camp Commandant's feet, which sent that officer berserk.
  In '78, the AF Col. still suffered from double vision
  (which permanently ended his flying days) from the
  Vietnamese Col.'s frenzied application of a wooden baton.
  From 1963-65, Col. Larry Carrigan was in the 47FW/DO
  (F-4Es). He spent 6 -years in the "Hilton"- the first
  three of which he was "missing in action". His wife lived
  on faith that he was still alive. His group, too, got the
  cleaned/fed/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 still survived. Each man secreted a
  tiny piece of paper, with his SSN on it, in 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 the little pile of papers. Three
  men died from the subsequent beatings.
  Col. Carrigan was almost number four but he survived,
  which is the only reason we know about, 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 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 was weighing approximately 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 Jane Fonda. I said yes, for I would like to
  tell her about the real treatment we POWs received
  different from the treatment purported by the North
  Vietnamese, and parroted by Jane Fonda, as "humane and
  lenient." Because of this, I spent three days on a rocky
  floor on my knees with outstretched arms with a large
  amount of steel placed on my hands, and beaten with a
  bamboo cane till my arms dipped.
  I had the opportunity to meet with Jane Fonda for a
  couple of hours after I was released. I asked her if she
  would be willing to debate me on TV. She did not answer
  me.
  This does 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.

Replies

  1. Traitor Margaret Jaszlics (avjaszlics@aol.com), Thu, 21 Feb 2002 00:35:47 GMT
  2. WHO is honoring her, or is this propaganda as well? Barb Cole (barrons7@charter.net), Tue, 27 Aug 2002 21:42:51 GMT
    1. Barbara Walters honored her Jennifer Birk (jbirk25@aol.com), Sun, 08 Dec 2002 17:01:20 GMT
    2. Propaganda????? Gerard (), Thu, 23 Jan 2003 05:38:27 GMT
    3. Does it matter? Jim (), Wed, 19 Mar 2003 16:36:48 GMT
  3. Fonda, "Corrigan", "In Retrospect", more later Arthur Toegemann (arttoeg@hotmail.com), Fri, 17 Jan 2003 03:35:41 GMT

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