Posted on Jan 18, 2015
Jane Fonda special appearance draws Veteran protestors. What do her apologies mean to you?
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77-year-old Jane Fonda was at the Weinberg Center for the Arts in Frederick for a speaking engagement Friday.
Fonda told the audience she made a "huge mistake'' that led many to think she was against soldiers fighting in Vietnam, and it's something that she'll take to her grave. She says she understands their anger and that it makes her sad.
Fonda drew the ire of many Americans when she visited North Vietnam at the height of the Vietnam War, leading some to call her "Hanoi Jane.''
Here is the original article: http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Jane-Fonda-Draws-Protesters-in-Maryland-288958811.html
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In recent years, Jane Fonda has more vocally apologized for her actions during the Vietnam War, which led many to call her "Hanoi Jane". Many Veterans say her actions are unforgivable and on par with treason against the USA.
What do her apologies these days mean to you? Please vote in the survey!
Fonda told the audience she made a "huge mistake'' that led many to think she was against soldiers fighting in Vietnam, and it's something that she'll take to her grave. She says she understands their anger and that it makes her sad.
Fonda drew the ire of many Americans when she visited North Vietnam at the height of the Vietnam War, leading some to call her "Hanoi Jane.''
Here is the original article: http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Jane-Fonda-Draws-Protesters-in-Maryland-288958811.html
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In recent years, Jane Fonda has more vocally apologized for her actions during the Vietnam War, which led many to call her "Hanoi Jane". Many Veterans say her actions are unforgivable and on par with treason against the USA.
What do her apologies these days mean to you? Please vote in the survey!
Edited 10 y ago
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Nothing! The bitch is a sleaze ball and a traitor . I DON"T have any respect for her and if you can't tell, I don't like her!
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Lt Col Timothy Parker, DBA
I can forgive her, but won't forget what she did or trust her for her idealism and stupidity.
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Let me just say this: She aided and abetted the enemy... She should have hung for her actions. She caused the DEATH of other Soldiers, who were only doing what they were told - by the COUNTRY SHE HAS PROFITED OFF! She deserves to rot in hell. The fact that she said "told the audience she made a 'huge mistake'' that led many to think she was against soldiers fighting in Vietnam, and it's something that she'll take to her grave. She says she understands their anger and that it makes her sad." proves she's an idiot and is not deserving of forgiveness - because it DOESN'T EVEN ACKNOWLEDGE that SHE caused Soldiers to get killed!
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Jane can be as sad as she wants to be but it will never change what she did. She should of been charged with treason. Yes, she admits she made a "huge mistake" but that does not justify her actions. We all have chooses in life and Jane made a choice to do and say the things she did and she can never take it back. She should feel sad! Just my thoughts. If Jane Fonda ever came to my house, which I know she will not, to ask me to forgive her for her atrocities in North Vietnam, the first thing that she would encounter is the above sign that is near the entrance of my home. This sign says it all! SF!
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Sgt David G Duchesneau
Just a quick note: Back in 1981, I was a Detective Corporal in the NH State Police and I was asked if I wanted to make some extra money working overtime on an Executive Protection Detail. Thant we had some Hollywood actors and actresses coming to our Lake Region, Squam Lake, to make a Movie. That movie was "On Golden Pond." I learned that Henry Fonda and Katherine Hepburn would be staring in the film and playing the leading roles. I was also told that Jane Fonda was also starring in the movie. After learning this information, I declined the offer because I did not want to subject myself to be anywhere around her. I was told that we would have to protect them and their filming crew while they were in our State filming the movie. I knew that I could not, in all good conscious, do that. To this day I have not watched the movie. I have not and will not watch any movie that Jane stars in. This is how adamant I was and still am of what Jane did by her actions in North Vietnam. Forgive her for what she did and said? No way in hell! SF!
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Her acts were intentional. I should be able to forgive, as that is what we are called upon to do. I have thought long and hard on that one, and cannot.
She should have been brought up on charges of Treason, but she was not.
She should have been brought up on charges of Treason, but she was not.
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She should be forgiven I think. I think it's been a long enough time and she did apologize. I think if someone openly repents to wrongdoings, forgiveness should be granted. Definitely you can't nor you should forget.
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Okay, she's sorry. So what! She wasn't sorry when she did it, she made a conscious adult decision, but now regrets the action, or says that what she did is taken out of context. Sorry, her actions were not simply misguided youth, they were treasonous.
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Her words now have the same meaning to me as they did when she visited the enemies of my Country,nothing.
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Young, naive, in love and fighting for a cause that, by 1972, most of the Nation supported--end the war in Vietnam. She claims the POW note passing never happened and that she was manipulated into the infamous photo op placing her in the gunner's seat of the North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun. Perception is one thing and reality, quite often, another. Truth is, she should never have been there in the first place and her actions furthered the cause of our enemies both at home and abroad. She claims she's sorry and she should be but when it comes to real blame, her actions pale in comparison. From the Gulf of Tonkin to our abandonment of our South Vietnamese allies in the Spring of '75, our Government essentially fought the VN war as a "holding engagement" against Communism at the expense of nearly 60K American and God only knows how many Vietnamese lives--somewhere between one to two million. McNamara said later, "We knew going in that we couldn't win"--WTF. For those who hate Jane Fonda, I get it and I have no problem with it but she is just the Poster Child. Hiding behind her skirts, however, are a lot of Government officials who had the power to do a better job committing troops, prosecuting the war and establishing a workable peace in Vietnam.
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