-Caveat Lector-
TO; Dear Ms. Barbara Walters:
(ABC 20/20 " Women of the Century ,Special April 30, 1999)
First let me first say that I am an admirer of your work and have been for
many years. However, I am extremely disappointed to learn that you have
included Jane Fonda on your upcoming program "100 Years of Great Women".
As a Viet Nam veteran I found her visit to Hanoi in 1972 to be despicable.
Not only did she consort with the enemy, she called our Prisoners of War
liars. The images of her sitting behind those anti-aircraft guns bring back
my personal pain and the sadness I felt for the families of men in my unit,
the guys from my neighborhood and the classmates from high school, college
and OCS who were gave their lives there. While there were many people did
not support our government's involvement in Viet Nam, they found ways of
making their feelings known without contributing to the deaths of Americans
servicemen and women.
It is beyond my comprehension that she would be placed on a public platform
and honored for acts that would have had her tried and convicted of treason
at any other time in our history. I am afraid that some people still don't
get it. We the veterans of the Viet Nam war continue to be victimized
almost 27 years later by honoring Jane Fonda. Whatever she may have
accomplished on film has been negated by her actions in Hanoi. I want to
remind all citizens what she meant to us then and what she means to us today.
I am particularly concerned about those not old enough to remember the war
but certainly old enough to be influenced by glorifying a woman like Jane
Fonda.
Sincerely,
Viet Nam Veteran
And include Spec/4 Cornealius S. Price, Third Field Hospital, Saigon triage
medic, that has had a multitude of young men die in his arms and has had to
make the decision on a daily basis, "do I give the morphine to the injured
man thats going into surgery or the one that has about ten minutes to live
and is in such pain that it is unbearable. asking me, "Butch, please put me
out of my misery." This is one of the modst painful letters that I have had
to answer but it is a letter that I wouldn't have missed for the world. I
will not watch her movies or even give her credence as a artist, neither will
I watch anything that her daugther is staring in. I can't even remember her
name.
Thank you for bringing tis to my attention. THE WARRIORS DIDN'T CAUSE THE
WAR, THEY MERELY FOUGHT IT, BRAVELY I MIGHT ADD...
~B51...
Dear Ms. Barbara Walters;
I was aghast to read that your upcoming "100 Years of Great Women" would
include "Hanoi" Jane Fonda. Please define "Great." Should our lexicons be
revised to indicate that word is now to be recognized as equivalent and
synonymous to "notorious," "abominable" and "despicable?"
Ironic, that at this present day our nation is embroiled in yet another
controversial military engagement, and all the more ironic (not actually)
that the most vocal opponents and protesters of "sending in the troops" to
Kosovo are Vietnam Veterans, such as myself. Now you would honor one who
crossed WELL OVER the line from Vietnam War protester to openly and
unabashedly aiding and abetting an enemy who was killing and imprisoning US
troops. Preposterous, Ms. Walters. There is no expanse of positive
accomplishment claimable by Jane Fonda that could possibly salvage the
scarlet reputation she so willingly embraced.
"I wish I had one of them in my sights now" -- her exact comment while in
the gunner's seat of a anti-aircraft artillery piece in Hanoi. Just who do
you suppose "one of them" was? By her own words, she disassociated herself
from being "one of us" as permanently as the death she wished to US pilots,
and has since made only grudging, self-serving and unacceptable "apologies"
(more at attempts to ameliorate) for her "youthful indescretions."
Only the moot formality of whether that war was declared or undeclared
separates her from the abject scourn she now and forever should endure, and
certain conviction of high treason punishable by execution. If you do
include Jane Fonda in your "100 Years of Great Women," it would surely be
only for the purpose of soiling and disgracing the others to be recognized,
and to issue your personal insult to over 58,000 Great Names on a wall in
Washington, DC.
You've probably heard some say that we are already deep into a "cultural
war." Please don't contribute to the Dark Side in that war by rendering
archaic the principles of honor, respectability and responsibility by
including such a person as Jane Fonda in a cavalcade to recognize "great"
women. The most humble and unaccomplished of women are great when
contrasted to that one loathsome example.
Subject: Jane Fonda - great woman?
Dear Barbara Walters
I am a former Air Force fighter pilot who flew two combat tours in
Vietnam. I and all of my former comrades are dismayed and angered by your
announced decision to include Jane Fonda in your prospective program "100
years of great women".
To do so, particularly now, as men and women of our military services
are being placed in harm's way, is an act of great insensitivity. Jane Fonda
is perceived by us to be a traitor, giving support and encouragement to the
people who were, during the Vietnam war, killing our young men by the
hundreds. Her visit to Hanoi during the height of the war, hugging North
Vietnamese politicians, being pictured sitting in the seat of an anti
aircraft gun that might have shot at me, and her reported statement that she
would "love to shoot down an American aviator" were acts that would have
resulted in her incarceration during WW II.
Her acts and subsequent remarks about our POWs including the callous
and outrageous statement that "they weren't really tortured", were
traitorous and despicable. She is relegated in our minds to the lowest
reaches of disgust and disdain that our warriors can conceive. She used her
great wealth and position as a weapon to help kill us and torment our
prisoners. She is scum.
Your decision to throw flowers upon her name now is stupid and
unfeeling. I will never forget it and neither I believe, will the hundreds
of thousands of service members who fought in past wars and who now place
their lives on the line for our country. If you think that Jane Fonda is
history to us you are very badly mistaken.
Subject: Barbara Walters
Sirs,
Any attempt to honor Jane Fonda as a "Woman of the Century" or in any other
fashion by ABC or Barbara Walters, will just be another media slap in the
face for the thousands of veterans who view this woman as a traitor by any
definition of the word. Fighting a war is bad enough, to have your own
countrymen turn on you and reviling you for doing your duty, is something I
have never been able to overcome. But to lionize a traitor who went to the
enemy country and encouraged the enemy is just more than I need. Axis Sally
got jailed for her treason, Tokyo Rose got jailed for her treason, Jane Fondo
got rich. I don't expect true justice, but I don't expect to be slapped in
the face again with this spectacle. I shall tape the show, and if she is
honored in any way, I will personally never watch ABC television again. I
shall also make it my duty to take every step I can to boycott ever sponsor
of the show. As a member and secretary of several military organizations, I
will exhaust all means to get the word out. As Peter Arnett and the
discredited CNN has discovered, there are a lot of vets out here in the real
world.
This is not a threat to your first amendment rights, which I helped to
protect in two wars, but rather a plea for good taste. The media has done
enough to the Viet-nam vet.
Matt Matteson
Rt 2 Box 297
Thorn hill, TN 37881-9441
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