100 traitors of the century

> > > > Subject:  The Real Jane Fonda
> > > >
> > > >  The Real Jane Fonda
> > > >
> > > >   Jane Fonda is being honored as one
> > > >   of the "100 Women 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.
> > > >
> > > >   Part of my conviction comes from personal exposure to those
> > > >   who suffered her
> > > >   attentions. 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 1983-85, 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 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 were receiving, which was far
> > > >   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.
> > > >
> > > >   Charles (Skip) Klingman,
> > > >   Asst. Professor of
> > > >   Music
> > > >   Southwestern Oklahoma State University
> > > >   Weatherford, OK
> > > >   73096
> > > >   (580) 774-3219 FAX: (580) 774-3795
> > > >
> > > >   If having Jane Fonda named
> > > >   one of the woman of the century bothers you as much
> > > >   as it does me, then
> > > >   mail this to everyone on your list.
> > >
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