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Subject: Fonda

KEEP THIS MOVING ACROSS AMERICA

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.

want to see a picture of Hanoi Jane? Here's one right from snopes.com

http://www.snopes.com/military/graphics/fonda.jpg

-- 
"I won't be wronged. I won't be insulted,
and I won't be layed a hand on.
I don't do these things to other people,
and I require the same from them"
J.B. Books (John Wayne)