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Registered: 01-24-05
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The following is true, and Discoveryschool.com has it on their site. Please pass along, this cannot happen.


A TRAITOR IS ABOUT TO BE HONORED
> KEEP THIS MOVING ACROSS AMERICA
>
> This is for all the kids born in the 70's who do
> not remember, 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 was
> dragged away.
> During the subsequent beating, he fell forward
> on to the camp Commandant's feet, which
> sent that officer berserk.
> >
>
> In 1978, the Air Force Colonel still suffered from
> double vision (which permanently ended his
> flying career) from the Commandant'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
> "Hanoi Hilton",,, the first three of which his
> family only knew he was "missing in action".
> His wife lived on faith that he was still alive.
> His group, too, got the cleaned-up, fed and
> 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 were alive
> and still survived. Each man secreted a tiny
> piece of paper, with his Social Security Number
> 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 all the little pieces of paper.
>
>
>
> Three men died from the subsequent beatings.
> Colonel Carrigan was almost number four
> but he survived, which is the only reason we
> know of 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 prisoner 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 weighed only about 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 her.
>
>
>
> I said yes, for I wanted to tell her about the real
> treatment we POWs received... and how
> different it was from the treatment purported by
> the North Vietnamese, and parroted by her as
> "humane and lenient."
>
>
>
> Because of this, I spent three days on a rocky
> floor on my knees, with my arms outstretched
> with a large steel weights placed on my hands,
> and beaten with a bamboo cane.
>
>
>
> I had the opportunity to meet with Jane Fonda
> soon after I was released. I asked her
> if she would be willing to debate me on TV.
> She never did answer me.
>
>
>
> These first-hand experiences do 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.
> RONALD D. SAMPSON, CMSgt, USAF
> 716 Maintenance Squadron, Chief of
> Maintenance
> DSN: 875-6431
> COMM: 883-6343
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It appears this story, although interesting is not exactly true. Please read the following link for more information:
http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/weekly/aa110399.htm
Junior Member
Registered: 03-14-05
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There's no disputing that Jane Fonda toured North Vietnam, propagandized on behalf of the communists, and participated in an orchestrated "press conference" with American POWs in 1972. There's no denying that she defamed POWs by whitewashing the Viet Cong's treatment of them and later calling them liars when they spoke out.

Claim: POWs were beaten for refusing to cooperate or meet with Fonda during her visit.

Status: TRUE.


Claim: Fonda betrayed POWs by turning over slips of paper they gave her to their captors. POWs were beaten and died as a result.

Status: FALSE.

Claim: A POW spat at Fonda, for which he was brutally beaten.

Status: FALSE.
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Registered: 03-23-07
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AS far as I'm concerned she Definately does not belong in the top 100 of anything except bieng a traitor.
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