This is for all the kids born in the
70's that do not remember this, and didn't have to bear the burden, that
our fathers, mothers, and older brothers 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 1968, 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 PJ's, 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-4E's). 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 received 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 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.
LINKS
http://www.rjgeib.com/thoughts/fonda/fonda.html
http://www.henrymarkholzer.com/hanoijane.net/
http://www.geocities.com/fateymike/jane.html
For more links go to Google and search on Hanoi
Jane
