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. Click on pic, left to enlarge.

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 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 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 application of a wooden baton.

Cyclequest received this E-mail one day in January '01 and thought it was worth publishing so that young and old alike would know the real story. 

Back in April we received an E-mail from Roger Herrick, brother of Capt Jim Herrick, MIA 10/27/69 and the State Coordinator for the "Run for the Wall" annual run to Washington DC for Vets and their supporters that is held in May. Roger was kind enough to set the story straight. Therefore we needed to cross out the above paragraph. Research is being done to validate the rest of the letter. Here is an excerpt from Roger's letter.

"...I appreciate your Jane Fonda page too. But you should make a correction. This story has been floating around the internet for a while and although there's no love lost between me and Jane, I want to make sure the story is correct. Those of us who support our POWs and MIAs don't like to be accused on not knowing what we're talking about. There are plenty of people who accuse us of that and we don't want to give them any credence, so hear me out. I have a good friend who maintains contact with the returned POWs. Among many other things vet related, she runs the "In Touch" program. When people who wore POW bracelets want to return them to the POWS who did come home, Sharon connects them with the ex-POW. It's all done confidentially so the ex-POWs privacy isn't infringed, but usually the ex-POW will make contact with the person if he feels that person is genuine and not a media hound. Long way around to get to my point, but I wanted you to know that this is legitimate. Sharon has asked Jerry Driscoll about this Jane Fonda story and Jerry said it did not happen and he would like to stop the story about him. No doubt Fonda's appearance and sympathy with the VC did cause an increase in prisoner's torture, but the incident described between Jerry and Jane did not happen. I don't know about the rest of the story, but I know the Driscoll incident didn't happen. Just thought you should know. ......I don't know if I would eliminate the page. I guess if it was me, I'd strip out the Driscoll part and leave the rest while I researched to see if what remains is true. Yes you can use my email, or better yet, I'll ask Sharon to get Jerry to say so in his own words. I'm sure he'd appreciate a chance to rebut."    Thanks Roger

From 1983-85, Col. Larry Carrigan was the 347FW/DO (F-4Es). He spent six 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 the "peace delegation" visit. They however, had time and devised a plan to get word to the world that they 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. I don’t know that they used it, but the charge of "Negligent Homicide due to Depraved Indifference" would also seem appropriate. 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. Most of you have probably already seen this by now, only addition I might add to these sentiments is to remember the satisfaction of relieving myself into the urinal at some airbase or another where "zaps" of Hanoi Jane’s face has been applied.

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 more than five 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, the camp communist political officer asked me if I would be willing to meet with Jane Fonda. I said yes, for I would like to tell her about the real 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. She was mind controlled by her husband. 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 protestors 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 names on that somber black wall called the Vietnam Memorial. 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 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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