Jane
>>
>> 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."
>>
>> BY BARBRA WALTERS
>>
>> 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.
>>
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>> 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."
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>>
>> 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.
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