Re: Atomic vet doses

[Mary Jo McGrath <maryjo@lanl.gov>]

Speaking of Veterans Day and Vets...I want to offer the
following story.  It is sobering.
MJ

>To: Walden David C. LtCol 375OSS; 
>Subject: Fw: Hanoi Jane
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Zoltan Kristof <natloz@worldnet.att.net>
>Sent: Sunday, October 17, 1999 4:42 PM
>Subject: Hanoi Jane
>
>>     Looks like Hanoi Jane may be honored as one 
>>of the "100 Women of the Century".  JANE FONDA 
>>remembered?  Unfortunately many have forgotten
>> and still countless others have never known how 
>>Ms. Fonda betrayed not only the idea of our "country" 
>>but the men who served and sacrificed during Vietnam.
>>      There are few things I have strong visceral reactions 
>>to, but Jane Fonda's participation in what I believe to be 
>>blatant treason, is one of them.  Part of my conviction 
>>comes from 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 Commandant of the USAF Survival School 
>>was a former 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, accidentally pulling the man's shoe off-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 1983-85, Col Larry Carrigan was the 347FW/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.
>>      Three men died from the subsequent beatings.  Col Carrigan 
>>was almost number four.  For years after their release, a group of
>> determined former POWs Including Col Carrigan, tried to bring Ms.
>> Fonda and others up on charges of treason.  Her obvious "granting of
>> aid and comfort to the enemy", alone, should've been sufficient for
>> the treason count.  However, to date, Jane Fonda has never been
>> formally charged with anything and continues to enjoy the privileged
>> life of the rich and famous.  I, personally, think that this is
>> shame on us, the American Citizenry.  Part of our shortfall is
>> ignorance: most don't know such actions ever took place.  
>>Thought you might appreciate the knowledge.
>>
>> To whom it may concern:
>> 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, SouthVietnam, 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 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 piece of steel placed on my hands, and beaten
>> with a bamboo cane every time 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; her former husband, Tom Hayden,
>> answered for her.  This does not exemplify someone who should be 
>> honored as "100 Years of Great Women."
>>
>> After I was released, I was asked what I thought of Jane Fonda 
>> and the anti-war movement.  I said that I held Joan Baez's 
>> husband in very high regard, for he thought the war was wrong, 
>> burned his draft card and went to prison in protest.  If the other 
>> anti-war protesters took this same route, it would have brought 
>> our judicial system to a halt and ended the war much earlier, 
>> and there wouldn't be as many on that somber black granite 
>> wall called the Vietnam Memorial.  This is democracy.  This 
>> is the American way.
>>
>> Jane Fonda, on the other hand, chose to be a traitor, and went to
>> Hanoi, wore their uniform, propagandized for the communists, and
>> urged American soldiers to desert.  As we were being tortured, and
>> some of the POWs murdered, she called us liars.  After her
>> heroes-the North Vietnamese communists-took over South Vietnam, 
>> they systematically murdered 80,000 South Vietnamese political 
>> prisoners. May their souls rest on her head forever.  Shame!  Shame!  
>> (History is a heavy sword in the hands of those who refuse to forget
>> it.  Think of this the next time you see Ms. Fonda-Turner at a
>> Braves game).
>>
>> Please take the time to read and 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".  Lest we forget..."100
>> years of great women" Jane Fonda should never be considered.


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