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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

Have you would be a better question?

And would that be right next to the monument at the lake to McCain?

Or maybe with those slips of paper that were supposedly given to Fonda?

Lynda, who knows how to do research

"The most serious accusations in the piece quoted above, that Fonda turned 
over slips of paper furtively given her by American POWs to the North 
Vietnamese and that several POWs were beaten to death as a result, are 
untrue. Those named in the inflammatory e-mail have repeatedly and 
categorically denied the events they supposedly were part of.

"It's a figment of somebody's imagination," says Ret. Col. Larry Carrigan, 
one of the servicemen mentioned in the 'slips of paper' incident. Carrigan 
was shot down over North Vietnam in 1967 and did spend time in a POW camp. 
He has no idea why the story was attributed to him, saying, "I never met 
Jane Fonda." In 2005, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported that Carrigan 
"is so tired of having to repeat that he wasn't beaten after Fonda's visit 
and that there were no beating deaths at that time that he won't talk to the 
media anymore."

The tale about a defiant serviceman who spit at Jane Fonda and is severely 
beaten as a result is often attributed to Air Force pilot Jerry Driscoll. He 
has also repeatedly stated on the record that it did not originate with him:
Driscoll said he never met Fonda, as the e-mail claims - and therefore, 
never spit on her and didn't suffer permanent double vision from a 
subsequent beating. "Totally false. It did not happen," Driscoll said.

"I don't know who came up with [my] name. The trouble that individual has 
caused me!" he said, referring to the time he has spent repeatedly denying 
the persistent myth.
Mike McGrath, President of NAM-POWs, has also stepped forward to disclaim 
the story:
Please excuse the generic response, but I have been swamped with so many 
e-mails on the subject of the Jane Fonda article (Carrigan, Driscoll, strips 
of paper, torture and deaths of POWs, etc.) that I have to resort to this 
pre-scripted rebuttal. The truth is that most of this never happened. This 
is a hoax story placed on the internet by unknown Fonda haters. No one knows 
who initiated the story. Please assist by not propagating the story. Fonda 
did enough bad things to assure her a correct place in the garbage dumps of 
history. We don't want to be party to false stories, which could be used as 
an excuse that her real actions didn't really happen either. I have spoken 
with all the parties named: Carrigan, Driscoll, et al. They all state that 
this particular internet story is a hoax and they wish to disassociate their 
names from the false story.
Despite the claims of hundreds of Vietnam veterans who maintain they were 
"there" and can affirm these tales as true, Jane Fonda actually met with 
only a handful of American POWs in North Vietnam, and even they have spoken 
out on the record to disclaim the story:
"The whole [e-mail] story about Jane Fonda is just malarkey," said Edison 
Miller, 73, of California, a former Marine Corps pilot held more than five 
years. Miller was among seven POWs who met with Fonda in Hanoi. He said he 
didn't recall her asking any questions other than about their names, if 
that. He said that he passed her no piece of paper, and that to his 
knowledge, no other POW in the group did, despite the e-mail's claims.
In fact, Fonda carried home letters from many American POWs to their 
families upon her return from North Vietnam.

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From: <DSanner106 AT aol.com>
> That cracks me up.
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> Ever been to north vietnam and seen the war hero's exhibit and the only 
> two
> americans featured? Jane Fonda and John Kerry.
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> That cracks me up too.
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