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crossroads Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-31-04 02:33 AM
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I have this email about Jane Fonda and need to get the facts.
I have no link because this is an email that is making the rounds on the net!
I am going to post it in its' entirety. I beg moderators' indulgence.
If improper, please move or delete it. Thanks CR

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Keep moving this on.

This is for all the kids born in the 70's that do not remember this,
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 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-4E's). 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 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.

RONALD D. SAMPSON, CMSgt, USAF
716 Maintenance Squadron, Chief of Maintenance
DSN: 875-6431
COMM: 883-6343

PLEASE HELP BY SENDING THIS TO EVERYONE IN YOUR ADDRESS BOOK. IF
ENOUGH PEOPLE SEE THIS MAYBE HER STATUS WILL CHANGE
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Has anyone heard of this damning accusation and is it based on fact?
Please give me some help here... I remember Jane in a good way as a peace advocate and trying to help children. I can't believe what this email is saying. It was posted on a group I belong to and I hope to correct the misconceptions! Thanks. CR

:shrug:
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SoCalDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-31-04 02:39 AM
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1. Delete that person from your email list..
and that email..

It's been going around for Y E A R S ...

The folks who send crap like this around the web, only do it so the people who receive them:

1.Get mad
2.Waste time online trying to refute them
3.Waste time sending refuting information ..

They only want you to spin your wheels..

Who has time for that these days??

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charlie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-31-04 02:39 AM
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2. It's an old, old bit of email lore
A bit of truth mixed with a mountain of fabrications. Send them to snopes:

http://www.snopes.com/military/fonda.asp

and make sure they make special note of the statements by Col Carrigan.
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SoCalDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-31-04 02:41 AM
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3. locking now
thanks for posting the snopes url:)

all who see this can go there and get the real info
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