Subject: Jane Fonda
>
> 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.
> Part of my conviction comes from personal 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 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 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. He fell to and touched the
> 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 1973-75, 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 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.
>
> Charles (Skip) Klingman
> Asst. Professor of Music
> Southwestern Oklahoma State University
> Weatherford, OK
> 73096
> (580) 774-3219 FAX: (580) 774-3795
>
> If having Jane Fonda named one of the woman of the century bothers you
> as much as it does me, then mail this to everyone on your list.
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