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This email has been around since 1999 or so, but I recently got it, again.
I have left the comments I made, when I returned it to the sender, throughout the email. I have simply highlighted them, here.
Jane Fonda (Hanoi Jane)

Jane Fonda in Viet-Nam
She really was a traitor
A TRAITOR IS ABOUT TO BE HONORED [IN 1999! -LE]
KEEP THIS MOVING ACROSS AMERICA [DON'T WASTE THE BANDWIDTH AND DISK SPACE! -LE]
This is for all the kids born in the 70's who do not remember, 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." BY BARBARA WALTERS [WAS - 1999 -LE]
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 IF-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 on to the camp Commandant's feet, which sent that officer berserk.
In 1978, the Air Force Colonel still suffered from double vision (which permanently ended his flying career) from the Commandant's frenzied application of a wooden baton.
[REFUTED - DRISCOLL SAYS HE NEVER MET JANE FONDA -LE]
From 1963-65, Col. Larry Carrigan was in the 47FW/DO (F-4E's). He spent 6 years in the "Hanoi Hilton",,, the first three of which his family only knew he was "missing in action". His wife lived on faith that he was still alive.
His group, too, got the cleaned-up, fed and 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 were alive and still survived. Each man secreted a tiny piece of paper, with his Social Security Number 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 all the little pieces of paper.
Three men died from the subsequent beatings. Colonel Carrigan was almost number four but he survived, which is the only reason we know of her actions that day.
[REFUTED - CARRIGAN SAYS IT NEVER HAPPENED -LE]
I was a civilian economic development advisor in Vietnam, and was captured by the North Vietnamese communists in South Vietnam in 1968, and held prisoner 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 weighed only about 90 lbs. (My normal weight is 1 70 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 her. I said yes, for I wanted to tell her about the real treatment we POWs received ... and how different it was from the treatment purported by the North Vietnamese, and parroted by her as "humane and lenient."
Because of this, I spent three days on a rocky floor on my knees, with my arms outstretched with a large steel weights placed on my hands, and beaten with a bamboo cane.
[MIXED - TRUE, BUT NOT BY THIS EMAIL WRITER, AND NOT "BECAUSE OF JANE", BUT BECAUSE OF HIS DEFIANCE OF "TOEING THE LINE" -LE]
I had the opportunity to meet with Jane Fonda soon after I was released. I asked her if she would be willing to debate me on TV.
She never did answer me.
[READ THE ORIGINAL EMAILS IN THE SNOPES ARTICLES. THIS PART HAS BEEN EDITED SO IT DOESN'T SOUND AS ... OUT-OF-IT AS IT ORIGINALLY SOUNDED. -LE]
These first-hand experiences do 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.
[NAME AND ADDRESS REMOVED, BECAUSE THIS EMAIL HAS BEEN AROUND FOR LITERALLY YEARS, IN ONE FORM OR ANOTHER, AND I DON'T WANT SOMEONE INNOCENT OF AUTHORING IT OUT TO BE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS ROUND. LE]
PLEASE HELP BY SENDING THIS TO EVERYONE IN YOUR ADDRESS BOOK. IF ENOUGH PEOPLE SEE THIS MAYBE HER STATUS WILL CHANGE.
Status: WRONG
Source(s):
Comment(s):
- IS being honored as one of the 100 Women of the Century? That was in 1999.
- Most of the stories in the email are false, totally refuted by those named.
- Was she there? Yes.
- Did she say and do some things she shouldn't have (or that most people wouldn't have)? Yes.
- Are some Vietnam Vets and former POWs mad? Yes (Because of what they KNOW or what they HEARD?)
End Notes

Jane Fonda in Viet-Nam
Don't count on her status changing, especially because of an email. I've already said that emails should be considered with a spoonful of salt - pretty much the way you should consider many of the supermarket tabloid stories.
Even so, no matter their politics, no matter what most of them have done, most celebrities will remain a celebrity, famous or infamous, and, if they are good at their jobs (and most have to admit that Jane's a pretty good actress), their "status" will not change, at least in the way the email above believes it should or will. And sometimes, they can "redeem" themselves. Look at Ozzie Osbourne. Years ago, he was reviled as the "bad boy" of heavy metal. Rumors and true stories abounded about him. A few years ago, the reality show "The Osbournes" showed what he was like at home, and people accepted him.
Besides, the main reason for this email (Jane's being "honored" as one of the century's 100 "greatest" women), happened in 1999! Of course, the "other" reason is character assassination. Jane did that herself many years ago, and has come back, if not thrived, since.
Great? That's not for me to decide. I like much of her acting. I don't know that I'd like her personally. But that's the way it is with all celebrities, politicians and "people in power", isn't it? Some are "spoiled brats", some are just "bad" (and I mean "BAD" not "GOOD", here!), and some, you just don't know... A couple of examples:
- OJ. - I liked him in the movies I saw him in - Towering Inferno, Naked Gun, etc. I doubt I'd like him, personally, especially, now - Whether he actually did it, or not.
- Michael Jackson - Most have to admit that "Thriller" and "Bad" were GREAT albums, musically. But I wouldn't want MY pre-teen or adolescent kids spending unsupervised time with him! Would you?
Then again, there are times the reverse holds true, too. For example:
- I had a boss a while back I basically HATED. But having been
to his home for a couple of parties, I found I liked him,
personally (uh... AWAY from work, at least!
).
You just never know.
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