posted 02-03- 08:35 PM               

Subject: Honoring a Traitor

Everyone has or did have a Vietnam veteran in their family. This is for all
the kids born in the 70's that don't remember this, and didn't have to bear
the burden, that our fathers, mothers, and older brother and sisters had to
bear. 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.

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
1963-65, 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 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 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.

posted 02-03- 09:48 PM               

There is only one thing the woman is good for - and I doubt she is any good AT it.

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