Honoring a Traitor

A TRAITOR IS ABOUT TO BE HONORED
>> > KEEP THIS MOVING ACROSS AMERICA
>> >>> > 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 BARBRA WALTERS
>> >
>> >>> > 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
>> >>> > 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.
>> >>> >
>> >>> > 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 Secur ity
> 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.
>> >>> >
>> >>> >
>> >>> >
>> >>> >
>> >>> > 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 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 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.
>> >>> >
>> >>> >
>> >>> >
>> >>> >
>> >>> > 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.
>> >>> >
>> >>> >
>> >>> >
>> >>> >
>> >>> > 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.
>> >>> > RONALD D. SAMPSON, CMSgt, USAF
>> >>> > 716 Maintenance Squadron, Chief of
>> >>> > Maintenance
>> >>> > DSN: 875-6431
>> >>> > COMM: 883-6343
>> >>> >
>> >>> >
>> >>> >
>> >>> >