Thomas Macaluso
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> HONORING A TRAITOR
>
> This is for all the kids born in the 70's that do not remember this, 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." 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 dragged away.
>
> During the 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 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
> "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 he 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 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 was weighing approximately 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 Jane Fonda. I said yes, for I
> would like to tell her about the real treatment we POWs received
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
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