The article below was transcribed in its entirety from:
82nd Airborne Division Association, Inc.
CHICAGO CHAPTER
June-July-August 2001

Please forward to as many people as possible. Thank You
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Dear Bill:

Please find enclosed a copy of a letter from Charles
Klingman, the subject of which is "Will the Real Jane Fonda
Please Stand Up". Even though the 78th Division did not
participate in the Vietnam conflict would it not be
appropriate for "The Flash" to take a stand on this issue?

Very Truly Yours
Robert A. Aquadro
A T Co., 309th inf.
212 Chestnut St.
Florence, MA 01062

The Letter Follows:

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Will The Real Jane Fonda Please Stand Up
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Jane Fonda is being honored as one of the "100 Women of the
Century". 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. Part of my conviction comes from
personal exposure to those who suffered 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 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 PJs, he was ordered to describe for a visiting "Peace
Activist" the "lenient humane treatment" he'd received. He
spat at Ms. Fonda, was clubbed, and dragged away. During
subsequent beating, he fell forward upon the camp
Commandant's feet, 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 friendly application of a wooden baton.

From 1983-85, Col. Larry Carrigan was in the 47FW/DO
(F-4Es). He spent 6 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 a "peace
delegation" visit. They, however, had time and devised a
plan to get word to the world that they still 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 of papers.

Three men died from the subsequent beatings. Col. Carrigan
was almost number four but survived, which is the only
reason we know about 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 for over 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 Thout, South Vietnam, whom
I buried in the jungle near the Cambodian border. At one
time, I was weighing approximately 90 pounds. (My normal
weight is 170 pounds.) 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 Jane Fonda. I said yes, for I would like to tell her
about the real treatment we POWs were receiving, which was
by far different from the 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 large amount
of steel placed on my hands, and beaten with a bamboo cane
till 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.

This does 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 a few I have strong visceral reactions to, but Hanoi
Jane's participation in blatant treason, is one of them.
Please take the time to forward this 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.

Charles (Skip) Klingman
Asst Professor of Music
Southwestern Oklahoma State University
Weatherford, OK 73096
Phone: 580 774-3219
FAX: 580 774-3795

Note - This article was provided by the courtesy of Joseph
Schwan, Past President of the 82nd ABN DIV ASSOC and Past
Chairman of the Chicago Chapter.
Your Secretary


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