KEEP THIS MOVING 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.
Joel M. Richardson