From Ken Felder, on Sat, 13 Jan 2001 03:26:54 GMT (in response to: Ask Jane)
Subject: Ref: Hanoi Jane does it again?
*****AMAZING!!!!!!*****
In Case You Did Not Know.........
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.
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 1963-75, 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 were receiving, which was far different from the treatment purported by the NorthVietnamese, 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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