If you have read my novel "The Last American Hero"; My March 26, 2012 Blogged Poem, written by Major Mike O'Donald (MIA);John McCains horrific experience as a Vietnam POW; and knew that a good friends brother, a Navy Pilot is still MIA, you will understand why I'm blogging this email.
It was sent to me by a close personal friend who was a pilot during the Vietnam war. I credited him as source of info in my novel.
The Email:
Never Forget! Never!
:
> I'd like to know your take on her????
>
>
> Subject: Barbara Walters on Jane Fonda I am sending this one out
> because so many do not know this truth...
>
> And also because she was on 3 times this week talking about her new book...
>
> And how good she feels in her 70's... She still does not know what she did
> wrong..her book just may not make the best list if more people knew...
>
> Also...
>
> Barbara Walters said:
>
> Thank you all. Many died in Vietnam for our freedoms.
>
> I did not like Jane Fonda then and I don't like her now.
>
> She can lead her present life the way she wants and perhaps SHE can forget
> the past, but we DO NOT have to stand by without comment and see her
> "honored" as a "Woman of the Century."
>
> (I remember this well)
>
> For those who served and/or died. . .
>
> NEVER FORGIVE A TRAITOR. SHE REALLY WAS A TRAITOR!!
>
> And now President OBAMA wants to honor her......!!!!
>
> In Memory of LT. C.Thomsen Wieland who spent 100 days at the Hanoi Hilton
> [Famous North Vietnam Prison]
>
> IF YOU NEVER FORWARDED ANYTHING IN YOUR LIFE FORWARD THIS SO THAT EVERYONE
> WILL KNOW!!!!!!
>
>
>
> A TRAITOR IS ABOUT TO BE HONORED.
>
> KEEP THIS MOVING ACROSS AMERICA
>
> This is for all the kids born in the 70's and after 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.'
>
> BARBRA WALTERS WRITES:
>
> 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 the Vietnam War.
>
> 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 s pat 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 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.
>
> 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 Banme 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 weight 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 pat riots.
>
> There are few things I have strong visceral reactions to, but Hanoi Jane's
> partici pat ion 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
>
> PLEASE HELP BY SENDING THIS TO EVERYONE IN YOUR ADDRESS BOOK. IF ENOUGH
> PEOPLE SEE THIS MAYBE HER STATUS WILL CHANGE.
My Request- Please forward this to your friends. Thank You--- Jerry
>
>
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