Jane Fonda

I read Hazardous Duty: An American Soldier In The Twentieth Century by Major General John K. Singlaub.  (I met him in 2001) and yes he is a Real NeoCon.

Here is one paragraph that I wanted to post. (pg.349-350)

  In February 1973, I was at Clark Air Force Base in the Philippines, where I visited the first American POWs flown out of Hanoi.  These were the “old hands,” some of whom had been in captivity for eight years.  Most had been savagely tortured, not for military information, but in order to extract propaganda messages.  Some had broken physically, but all had kept their spirits intact.  As I went form ward to ward chatting with these scarred, gaunt men, each group had the same question: Is Jane Fonda in jail? Several of the men who had been subjected to inhuman torture for years were badly beaten for refusing to appear with Fonda and her anti-war delegation in Hanoi, the same visit during which she was photographed gleefully seated at an NVA anti-aircraft gun. The POWs had gone so far as to draft formal complaints against her for treasonable action.  But they were convinced by civilian debriefing teams at Clark to give up their grievances.