Oh good, letters from a coward, a philanderer and a liar. Between him and Hanoi Jane being considered for one of the 100 Greatest is sorry representation for a small but vocal and media-centered culture...
Subject: HANOI JANE
Many of us over 45 remember that during the Viet Nam war Jane
Fonda opposed the war, as many others, but she went to Viet Nam
and embarrassed the U.S. Government and the prisoners of war by
her actions. Many of these actions are spelled out below. It
is appalling that her actions have been forgotten and that she
may be honored as one of the "100 Women of the Century." The
text that follows was sent to me, and I believe it needs
disbursing. Gayle Stelter
FORWARDED FOR YOUR INFORMATION
Subject: HANOI JANE
Looks like Hanoi Jane may be honored as one of the "100 Women
of the Century". JANE FONDA remembered? Unfortunately many
have forgotten and still countless others have never known how
Ms. Fonda betrayed not only the idea of our "country" but the
men who served and sacrificed during Vietnam.
There are few things I have strong visceral reactions to, but
Jane Fonda's participation in what I believe to be blatant
treason, is one of them. Part of my conviction comes from
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. In 1978, the Commandant
of the USAF Survival School was a former 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,
accidentally pulling the man's shoe off-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 wooden baton.
From 1983-85, Col. Larry Carrigan was the 347FW/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.
Three men died from the subsequent beatings. Col. Carrigan
was almost number four.
To whom it may concern:
I was a civilian economic development advisor in Viet Nam, and>was captured by the North Vietnamese communists in South Viet
Nam 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
piece of steel placed on my hands, and beaten with a bamboo
cane every time 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, her
former husband, Tom Hayden, answered for her. She was mind
controlled by her husband. This does not exemplify someone
who should be honored as "100 Years of Great Women."
Please take the time to read and 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". Lest we
forget..."100 years of great women" Jane Fonda should never
be considered.
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