FW: Jane Fonda
I usually don't send on mass e-mails, but thought many of you would find
this interesting:
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. Part of my conviction
comes from personal exposure to those who suffered her attentions.
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 1983-85, 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
inaction." 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 eprosarium in Ban me Thuot, South Vietnam, whom I buried in the
jungle near the Cambodian border. At one time, I was weighing approximately
90 pounds. (My normal weight is 170 pounds.) 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 were
receiving, which was far 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.
Charles (Skip) Klingman
Asst. Professor of Music
Southwestern Oklahoma State University
Weatherford, OK 73096
(580) 774-3219
FAX: (580) 774-3795
If having Jane Fonda named one of the woman of the century bothers
you as much as it does me, then mail this to everyone on your list.
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