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> Subject: FW: Jane Fonda
> Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 21:07:48 -0800
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> From: Iisaic [SMTP:iisaic@home.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2001 3:27 PM
> To: BEDEYJ@hood-emh3.army.mil; James Burke; Neil Reed; Robin; James
Mills;
> Louise Iverson; Martin Gomez; Bob Frey; Guy Karo; LAWRENCE COOPER;
> POTCEE@cs.com; PAUL WILSON JR; Henry Routon; Jack Goss; Richard Miller;
Ray
> Ruby
> Subject: Jane Fonda
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> 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. 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. 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 1963-75, 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
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