Just found out

Well, I have just crept into this whole Jane Fonda and her unfortunate point of view during Viet Nam thing. I was born in 1969, so what could I possibly know of Viet Nam except through history books? I have a very strong anti-war policy, so I probably would have been an activist back in the day. However, those boys who were sent to be slaughtered in that senseless tragedy were not to blame. Shame on the people who promoted demonstrations burning the flag and carrying on in such a fashion. What did those boys do except what they were trained to do? They were told to fight a war, and fighting was what they were good at. So they did it. People died. There.

I don't know for a fact that Jane Fonda ever visited Hanoi. If, in fact, she did and there is a fragment of truth to what is being said about her on the internet, then she is going to have to answer to her maker for it. She apologized. What possibly can she do to make amends for her actions, regardless of how treacherous? Should she cut herself open and bleed, or volunteer to be flogged with a cane pole? Will that even the score? I think not.

Bless the souls of the men who fought and died in Viet Nam in the name of democracy. Bless the souls of the innocent civilians who were caught in the crossfire and lost their lives in the name of politics. This war is old. Much was lost. Shall we lose our humanity too, arguing over what was real and what was not?

Let's assume she did it. So what? What can be done now, 30 plus years later? I wish it had never happened. I wish Osama bin-Laden hadn't sent his bloodhounds to America too. I wish we had stayed out of middle eastern affairs and let them blow each other away. I wish that if we were going to have a war, we'd just do it and get it over with so BOTH countries could start healing. But that remains my wish.

Have the decency to respect other people's opinions and try very hard to understand that what you feel and think may be polar opposites to someone else's point of view. Just because they think it - doesn't make it wrong - just wrong for you.

Most sincere kind regards, Shannon Sorrell