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I just received an email from a friend of mine. You won’t believe it!

IF YOU READ THIS , I AM SURE YOU WILL SEND IT ON!!!!!!

Subject: FW: Jane FondaDate: Mon, 8 Nov 2010 16:54:59 -0600

For those of you too young to remember  Hanoi Jane is a bad person and did some terrible things during the Vietnam  war.  Things that can not be forgiven!!!!

For  those who served and/or died.  NEVER  FORGIVE A TRAITOR.

SHE REALLY WAS A  TRAITOR!! and now OBAMA wants to honor  her……!!!!

In  Memory of LT. C.Thomsen Wieland  who  spent 100 days at the Hanoi Hilton.

She  really is a traitor.

IF YOU NEVER  FORWARDED ANYTHING IN YOUR LIFE FORWARD  THIS SO THAT EVERYONE WILL KNOW!!!!!!

A TRAITOR IS ABOUT TO BE HONORED. KEEP THIS MOVING  ACROSS AMERICA.

This is for all the  kids born in the 70’s and after who do not remember, 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.’

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 ofpaper, with his  Social Security Number 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 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 Ban me 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  weights 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.

PLEASE HELP BY SENDING  THIS TO EVERYONE IN YOUR ADDRESS BOOK. IF ENOUGH PEOPLE SEE THIS MAYBE HER STATUS WILL  CHANGE.

RONALD  D. SAMPSON, CMSgt, USAF 716 Maintenance  Squadron,Chief of Maintenance DSN: 875-6431  COMM: 883-6343

Jeff CadieuxJLC Associates Inc.3198 A Airport Loop Dr . Costa Mesa , Ca 92626 tel:  714-241-4430 fax: 714-241-4433visit our web site at www.JLCASSOC.com

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Conservatives have hard time supporting front-runner McCain

 

NORFOLK, Va – (TBS) – SuAnne Bryant is a self-described conservative – a “religious values” voter who opposes early withdrawal from Iraq.

Yesterday, she voted for Barack Obama.

“It’s not so much a vote for him. It’s a vote against Hillary,” said Bryant, 40, who, like all voters in Virginia, could participate in either party’s primary. Obama and Hillary Clinton, the two Democratic senators, are their party’s presidential candidates.

Bryant and other conservatives in this region of southeastern Virginia – known for its large concentrations of evangelical Christians – described themselves yesterday as a movement without a candidate, or at least a candidate who could win.

For many, the choice in 2000 and 2004 was clear – George W. Bush. But this year, the Republican choice was between Sen. John McCain of Arizona, who has often clashed with Christian conservatives, and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, whose social views make him popular in the region but who was all but mathematically eliminated before Virginians went to the polls.

That left people such as Bryant with unappealing choices: cast a protest vote for Huckabee, swallow their doubts and support McCain or make a strategic vote for a Democrat they consider the lesser of all evils. “There’s no fire in the belly for these [Republican] candidates,” Bryant said.

Doris McFarlane, a 60-year-old homemaker from Chesapeake, Va., who said she votes strictly on evangelical values, voted for Huckabee yesterday. But she vowed to support Obama in the fall if McCain, an Arizona senator, wins the Republican nomination.

“I just don’t feel it with him,” McFarlane, wife of an evangelical pastor, said of McCain. “He’s not strong on values.”

McCain has had a stormy relationship with some conservatives: He once called leaders of the religious right “agents of intolerance” and has taken stances on issues such as campaign finance reform and illegal immigration that drew the ire of some in his party.

But if McCain, a decorated Navy veteran of the Vietnam War, did not earn the enthusiastic support of some conservative voters here yesterday, he was expected to receive a boost from another big constituency in the Hampton Roads area: veterans and current military personnel.

“He’s not a dove,” said Mike Powers, 66, a Navy veteran from Chesapeake, who called the Democratic candidates “turncoats.”

Weba Vanderploeg, a former Marine, said he disagreed with McCain on certain issues but voted for him because of the need for someone with strong military experience. “It would be the worst thing in the world right now” to withdraw from Iraq, he said.

Arnold Black, 65, a retired Chesapeake police officer, said he admired McCain’s unflagging support for the U.S. mission in Iraq.

“McCain has always stated why he wanted to go to war, whether it’s the popular opinion or not,” Black said.

Both Huckabee and McCain campaigned here this week. McCain spoke at a rally in Richmond on Monday, while Huckabee visited evangelical churches in Richmond and Lynchburg.

But at precincts in Norfolk and Chesapeake yesterday, there were no campaign signs for McCain, and Huckabee signs seemed to be outnumbered by Obama and Clinton signs.

At a church in Norfolk, Craig Seifert handed out Huckabee literature and said that some voters expressed no passion for any of the candidates. “They were against somebody more than for somebody,” he said.

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