6-4-3 wrote:
Kid,
Aside from "taking pictures" with Vietnamese troops, aside from volunteering to broadcast anti-American propaganda on Vietnamese radio to the troops, aside from congratulating and shaking the hands of Vietnamese anti-aircraft gunners and aside from meeting American POW's and asking them if they "Feel bad about dropping bombs on babies" --- She turned over notes that the POW's had secretly handed her while shaking their hands (Notes detailing their being torchured along with their SSnumbers so that family back home knew they were still alive) to the Vietnamese prison head.
When she left the camp, several of those same soldiers were beaten to death as a result.
These are just a few of the reasons why "some asshole" (as you call this Vet.) decided to spit in her face.
I would guess that another reason would be for her half-baked, quasi-"apology" for "a few" of her actions in Vietnam. Something I'm sure some publicist told her ghostwriter to put in the book, in hopes of selling more copies.
Some of what you say is true. Some of it is nonsense, including the most serious allegation, that she got people killed:
http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/w ... 110399.htm
http://www.snopes.com/military/fonda.asp
Silly as Fonda might have been, I guess I still don't see what is accomplished by spitting on her.
If people are still that bitter over the war, maybe they should consider spitting on the people who got us into it, or kept us in it after they knew it was unwinnable. Robert McNamara, for starters, who has an impressive amount of blood on his hands.
Jane Fonda isn't the reason there's a memorial in Washington with 56,000 names on it.
