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Other Title: The Return of Hanoi Jane (tells Vets to'get a life') Jane Fonda's most famous film clip isn't a scene from Klute or On Golden Pond or even one of those workout videos. Instead, it's that 1972 appearance behind a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun. On Monday night, she explained to Larry King that nutty right-wingers are behind her subsequent reputation as a Commie dupe: JANE FONDA: No, it's about the myth, you know, why it is that 300 people went to North Vietnam, people, many people before me, why me, why have they created this myth? You know, when I came back from North Vietnam, there was maybe a quarter of an inch of media about it in the New York Times. Nobody made any big deal out of it. It was created, and some people are stuck- LARRY KING: By critics? FONDA: By right wingers. There are some people who are like stuck there, you know, they're still stuck in the past. I always want to say, "Get a life," or, you know, "Read what really happened," you know. The myths are now true. Get a life? This doesn't sound like the woman who once tried to express remorse for her actions. In 1988, she appeared on 20/20. Here's a summary from AP: "I was trying to help end the killing," Fonda said in an interview with Barbara Walters. "But there were times I was thoughtless and careless about it and I'm ... very sorry that I hurt them. And I want to apologize to them and to their families." For a lot of veterans, her apology came 16 years too late. Yet she did apologize, at least for the specific act of appearing behind the anti-aircraft guns. (As she also tried to make clear, she did not want to apologize for the totality of her anti-war activism.) Better late than never, right? Well, Fonda apparently wanted not just forgiveness, but also forgetfulness—because now, if even a softball-tosser like Larry King ventures anywhere near the subject of what she did in North Vietnam, nobody is treated to anything like the appearance of sincere regret. Instead, we get Hanoi Jane, ready to scold. Did you hear her, Vietnam vets? Get a life. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest Begin Trace Mode for Comment # 15. The photo of this old airhead of her wearing a NVA helmet, sitting on a anti aircraft gun that was positioned to defend Hanoi - in other words shoot at OUR SERVICEMEN aboard B-52's, completely discredits her. And it was BIG/HUGE/GIGANTIC NEWS WHEN IT HAPPENED. She can kid herself...but she cannot change the historical record. All this does is show she really has no regrets at all.
#3. To: Badeye (#2) All this does is show she really has no regrets at all. If you asked the average Vet of that era their opinion of Jane Fonda's activities they would have told you they approved. You seem to forget that most were drafted to fight a foreign war which by '72 most thought was being fought for show and politics.
#4. To: mininggold (#3) If you asked the average Vet of that era their opinion of Jane Fonda's activities they would have told you they approved. Well, geez, things must have changed a bunch between then and 1983 when I was in the Service, because then she was universally reviled. They wouldn't even allow her workout tapes to be sold in the Base Exchanges.
#8. To: no gnu taxes (#4) Well, geez, things must have changed a bunch between then and 1983 when I was in the Service, because then she was universally reviled. They wouldn't even allow her workout tapes to be sold in the Base Exchanges. Yep... you were not drafted or fighting in a dragged out foreign war....that was the difference. Too bad they didn't check your reading comprehension or you would have noticed the phrase "of that era". But I bet you really ignored it to make your empty point and score one for the Boofer. LOLOL
#9. To: mininggold (#8) During this visit she also visited American prisoners of war (POWs), and brought back messages from them to their families. When cases of torture began to emerge among POWs returning to the United States, Fonda called the returning POWs "hypocrites and liars." She added, "These were not men who had been tortured. These were not men who had been starved. Oh yeah, I bet they just loved her in that "era."
#14. To: no gnu taxes (#9) Oh yeah, I bet they just loved her in that "era." Too bad your sorry ass was too young to be drafted as a bullet stopper.
#15. To: mininggold (#14) Most soldiers hated Jane Fonda because of her negativity towards them. She called them names such as Baby killers, murderers, and so forth. http://www.glynn.k12.ga.us/BHS/academics/junior/2006/luko/rebeccad15654.htm
Replies to Comment # 15. http://www.glynn.k12.ga.us/BHS/academics/junior/2006/luko/rebeccad15654.htm The average Vietnam war protester was a Vietnam Vet.
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