“In 1978, the Commandant of the USAF Survival School, a colonel, was a former POW in Ho Lo Prison — the Hanoi Hilton. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 2002. The arrival of a former POW at Randolph AFB Feb. 15, 1973. He’d spent 6 [product] years in the Hilton — the first three of which he was listed as MIA. Three weeks later, the Lockheed c-141a Starlifters began pulling the American prisoners out of Vietnam, bringing them first to Clark Air Base in the Philippines, where they were sorted according to their stateside destinations. … That was Operation Homecoming.”. That story is false. “Believing this HAD to be an act, they each palmed her their sliver of paper. London, Herbert.     [Minneapolis] Star Tribune   25 May 2005. Jane Fonda’s War: A Political Biography of an Antiwar Icon. After politics disrupted the delivery of letters to and from American POWs in North Vietnam via U.S. Mail, many visitors who traveled to Hanoi during the war years (such as members of the group Women Strike for Peace) regularly brought POWs letters from their families and took letters from POWs back to the United States with them. S.A. logs increase in coronavirus positivity rate but no new... Public will have a say in resolving downtown dilemma. Snopes and the Snopes.com logo are registered service marks of Snopes.com. During her two-week stay, Fonda concluded that America was unjustly bombing farmland and areas far flung from military targets. Needless to say, we had to have a plan.”. The first group of American prisoners begins their journey home from Vietnam. 20 June 1988   (p. C4). 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 notes. The crowd at Randolph AFB Feb 15, 1973, for another Operation Homecoming flight arrival.     The Times-Picayune. Online. That first plane carried 20 Air Force and 12 Army personnel. Each man secreted a tiny piece of paper, with his Social Security number on it, in the palm of his hand. “The only addition I might add to these sentiments is to remember the satisfaction of relieving myself into the urinal at some air base or another where ‘zaps’ of Hanoi Jane’s face had been applied.”. “Every morning, every single morning, we got the body count. Holzer, Henry Mark and Erika Holzer. Associated Press. She took them all without missing a beat. The U.S. also conducted several operations to rescue American prisoners. Reuters.     The Toronto Star. However, to date, Jane Fonda has never been formally charged with anything and continues to enjoy the privileged life of the rich and famous. I don’t know that they used it, but the charge of ‘Negligent Homicide due to Depraved Indifference’ would also seem appropriate. The facts are that while in North Vietnam, Fonda met with only a single group of seven U.S POWs: all seven of those POWs agreed to meet with her, no POWs were tortured for declining to meet with her (or for behaving inappropriately during the meeting), and no POWs secretly slipped Fonda messages which she turned over to the North Vietnamese.

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