[BITList] Barbara Walters comments on Jane Fonda

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        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 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 Security Number on it, in the palm of his hand.

        When paraded before Ms. Fonda and a came ram an, 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 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



	




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