LOCATING JANE AND THE N VIET ANTIAIRCRAFT GUNNER
1 LOCATE DATES HANOI JANE WENT NORTH.2LOOK UP ARCHIVES FOR THE VARIOUS NEWSPAPER WIRE SERVICESSUCH AS "UPI",UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL,ETC.3LOOK AT THE FACE OF THEOLDER VIETNAMESE GUNNER TO HER BACK AND STANDING.HESE LOOKING DOWN AT HER,QUITE STOIC,WITH EYES THAT SEEM TO ASK "WHO IS THIS FOOLISH WOMAN?"JANE OF COURSE HAS HER GIDDY HOLLYWOOD SMILE AND HER "FONDA"HAIRCUT THAT SHE STATED ON A LATE NIGHT TALK SHOW "I WANTED SOMETHING DIFFERENT SO MY HAIRDRESSER CAME UP WITH THIS CREATION",SHE THEN WENT ON TO STATE THAT SHE PAID $250.00 FOR THE CUT.THAT MAY SEEM ASNO BIG DEAL TODAY BUT AT THAT TIME A 68 BARRACUDA WENT FOR $3,000.DO THE MATH.MY POINT,SHE WAS BORN WITH A SILVER SPOON IN HERMOUTH,TO A WEALTHY AND INFLUENTIAL HOLLYWOOD FAMILY.SHE WAS AND IS CLUELESS ABOUT WHAT THE REST OF US DO OR HAD BEEN DOING WITH OUR LIVES.IF MS.FONDA IS/WAS SO WORRIED ABOUT HUMANITY WHERE WAS HER OUTRAGE WITH THE SLAUGHTER HOUSES IN CAMBODIA,RUWANDA,THE KURDS IN IRAQ ETC.THE BOTTOM LINE HERE IS ,SHE GREW UP PRIVIGED, BELIEVING HER OWN "BS",CAUSING SOME VIETNAM VETS TO HAVE PAID THE ULTIMATE PRICE FOR HER HOLLYWOOD "SOCIAL" PUBLICITY.I WAS LUCKY ,I MADE IT BACK TO THE WORLD.FOUR OF MY BUDS DIDN'T;THEIR STILL MIA.BOB SAID,"ALL HE WANTED TO DO WAS TO GET HOME AND SEE HIS KIDS".THAT NIGHT,22 JANUARY,66 HE WAS SHOT DOWN OVER HAIPHONG.WE WERE THREE DAYS SHY OF GOING HOME.THANKS TO THE "JANES"HERE, PEOPLE LIKE BOBBY SENNETT ARE STILL THERE.
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