Subject: HONORING A TRAITOR ?

This is for all the kids born in the 70's who don't 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 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 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.



Mark Dennis Rotchford
Windy Bay-CDA Lake,  ID

I don't know how long this story has been going around but it is an urban myth.  It never happened.  People named deny it ever happened.  The story seems to have a life of its own.

All that being said, Jane Fonda is still a traitorus B**ch.