Jane Fonda not worthy

Jane Fonda

 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.
 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 "peacedelegation " 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 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.