>
> > 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 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 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 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.
