President Richard "Dick" Nixon was accused of lying about Viet Nam by Jane Fonda. To prove him a liar she made a trip to Viet Nam and posed with the enemy North. The story of her betraying prisoners that passed notes to her to take to their families has been debunked and even confirmed as false by some of the former prisoners. Some say she never visited any prisoners of war camps. Do any of you Nam vets have any knowledge that the media has covered up? Years ago I read writing by some of the former POWs that claimed they did hand her notes. Now those writing have disappeared and any former POWs are denying they even ever met her. A proven fact is that she posed with the enemy. She claims she was set up. Really? Proof she met with POWs that were cleaned up for a photoshoot. More proof of her siding with the enemy against our mostly drafted soldiers.
Her name is mud and always will be. She might have been young and foolish but it's too late to fix it.
Water under the bridge and more important is the cowardly exit from Viet Nam much like America's exits in nearly every conflict since.
I never really understood why we were there in the first place. To defend Viet Nam from communism? My brother thought it was for the rubber plantations. Some thought it was drug trade. But how are we supposed to end an illegal war? By not getting into one. So much sacrifice and sadness as with all wars and our leaders had no business putting our boys there. Media vilified them when it was not their fault!
Mr. Stanick is on an extended vacation so to answer for him, by the way he phrased his statement I doubt seriously if he had much to do with Vietnam. As with the majority of his posts, he writes to enrage for indeed, if he were a Vietnam vet he would not indicate that he along with every other vet is a coward. NO vet who was involved with the exit was a coward. The one most significant object of remorse by each and every Vietnam vet is that we were not given the opportunity to win that war. Now, as for our reason for being there, @Mary Stetler’s brother is on the money. (pun intended). American corporate interests in rubber and sugar was the chief reason for defending S. Vietnam. We had at first refused to be involved merely to help remove the French as per Ho Chi Minh’s request to Eisenhower around 1951. And, back to the OP, Jane Fonda had no business going to Hanoi but since history cannot be changed, what she saw, what she did and where she did it was so compartmentalized and arranged that there was no way that all the POW’s saw her especially by those who were being held and in serious need of medical attention from being tortured. Now, so far as one or more soldiers giving her notes? Logic dictates that if a POW had the implements to write with and pass a note, they would have. Like a woman who has all the indications that she has been raped and saying as much, I have a tendency to believe it. If a POW says that he passed Fonda a note, I also have a tendency to believe it wayyyyy over what any media hack would say.
We all lost some relatives in that war. Plus those who are still dying, and the PTB won't even allow you to visit them in VA Hospitals, they want all your personal info and then some. Including small towns. We tried about 15 years ago, its not new regulations. We have let our congressional servants turn into masters in less than 70 years.