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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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