Hi, all!
I rarely forward this kind of stuff but this one seemed worthy. It is
important that we as Beverly Vietnam Veterans, serving the North Shore,
get the word out to all our brothers and sisters.
Chet
Contrast Fonda's conduct with that of Martha Raye, who came to Vietnam with her USO show "Hello Dolly." Having already visited troops during World War II, the entertainer spent a total of 14 months in Vietnam during 1966 and 1967. She was cited by Gen. William Westmoreland for her nursing work in a combat zone. On one trip, she arrived at Soc Trang in the Delta on the morning of a major battle just as casualties were coming in. The tireless patriot got into her fatigues, went to the field medical unit and put her training as a nurse to practice for 13 straight hours, only to resume those duties the next morning.
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.
Jane Fonda goes to Hanoi and embraces NVA troops standing around their anti-aircraft weapons, with a big smile on her face, while putting down American troops, the South Vietnamese government and Washington? She mistakenly felt she was a good American patriot just voicing her opinion. Yet, the White House decided not to seek a treason charge against her. They felt such action would produce only adverse publicity for the war effort.
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.
FOREVER GREEN - From Bay State Veteran by Russ Vaughn who is the Poet Laureate of The American Thinker
Russ Vaughn - 2d Bn, 327th Parachute Infantry Regiment 101st Airborne Division Vietnam 65-66
Jane Fonda seeks exoneration,
Forgiveness from her traitored nation.
What say you warriors fought that war?
Is forgiveness clue that wartime whore?
So rich, so smart, she thought she knew
Much more than us, we bloodied few.
So smug, self-serving, seeking fame,
The rich bitch played her seditious game.
A game that cost me many friends,
Many, thanks to Jane, came to bad ends.
I've borne scars forty years or more,
From lies laid on me by this whore.
Self-serving now she sells her tale,
This traitor who should be in jail.
Is it within our souls to grant her grace?
Our souls shout, "No... spit in her face!"
So self assured, she played high stakes,
Telling American prisoners, "That's the breaks."
She accused brave men of heinous crimes,
Which were disproved in future times.
And now our country knows the truth
Jane Fonda betrayed us in our youth.
She asks us now to read her book,
Americans, the folks this bitch forsook.
So now she crawls, her conscience bare,
To tell us she screwed up back there.
Well, hell, we knew that way back then,
This Hanoi Jane who helped them win.
It was glory then for this airhead star,
But forever now she'll bear the scar
A scarlet letter she'll now wear,
A stench forever in her hair.
So Jane, dear, you must realize,
You're the devil in a helmet in our eyes.
When Vietnam vets raise up their toasts
It's to damn your soul, to salute our ghosts.
We swear, we living, to our long-dead brave,
We'll live to piss upon your grave.
So Jane, good fortune, unforeseen,
Your traitor's grave will be forever green.
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