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KEEP THIS MOVING ACROSS AMERICA
HONORING A TRAITOR
This is for all the kids born in the
70's that do
not remember this, and didn't have to
bare the burden,
that our fathers, mothers, and older
brothers and
sisters had to bare.
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 1978, 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 1963-65, 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
received, 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 arm!
s 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.