"Hanoi Jane" Fonda is still apologizing for going to North Vietnam 1972, and American Veterans are still letting her know “we haven’t forgotten.”
Fonda's appearance at the Weinberg Center for the Arts in Frederick, Md., on Friday drew about 50 protesters, many veterans of the Vietnam War.
“I’m a lightning rod,” Fonda told her audience, according to the Frederick News-Post. “This famous person goes and does something that looks like I’m against the troops, which wasn’t true, but it looked that way, and I’m a convenient target. So I understand.”
Fonda was a staunch anti-war advocate in the 1970s and an outspoken critic of the U.S. military. During a visit to Hanoi, she was photographed posing with North Vietnamese soldiers on an anti-aircraft gun. The pictures enrage many Americans to this day and earned her to name "Hanoi Jane."
"She encouraged North Vietnam to pull away from the negotiations table,” Army veteran Bob Hartman told the News-Post. "She got Americans killed."
"We haven’t forgotten,” Marine Corps veteran Tommy Grunwell said.
Fonda called her actions a "huge mistake" during her appearance.
“Whenever possible I try to sit down with vets and talk with them, because I understand and it makes me sad,” Fonda said responding to a question submitted from the audience. “It hurts me and it will to my grave that I made a huge, huge mistake that made a lot of people think I was against the soldiers.”
On Friday, protesters held signs saying "Forgive? Maybe. Forget? Never" and waved American flags.
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10 comments:
You have to love the Hanoi Jane urinal targets @ VFW and legion posts. Keeps the floor clean.
When they're sober they keep the floor clean.
A "huge mistake" is something along the lines of loaning money to a deadbeat relative.
Her actions in North Vietnam directly resulted in the deaths of young Americans.
Hardly a "big mistake".
My take on this?
I think she's doing all she can to clean up her legacy.
She knows that whatever she may do - or has done - in her career, the 2nd paragraph of her obituary will be a reference to her actions during the war.
I prefer to ask...what would Jesus do?
12:34 Yet a bunch of bitter old drunks....errrrr, men will stand in her way.
3:27 We should not forget and if you think it was trivial, read up on the entire story. Men DIED because of her nonchalance.
AND, she was used by the Vietnamese for propaganda purposes.
Yes, it's a big deal.
3:27--
Yet another ill-informed person who thinks they know it all! POWs lost their lives directly due to her actions, read up on the full story! My stepfather couldn't even say her name without being in a foul mood for hours, as he was a WWII veteran. And for you to refer to VETERANS as drunks is reprehensible @ best.Go crawl back under your rock, a$$wipe!
Sure we will. Just as we're bitter about Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, etc., - others that were responsible for deaths.
No, I'm not comparing her to those despots, but you get the point.
Would you be bitter if someone "made a mistake" and ran over one of your kids while drinking and driving?
Same thing - and it's the same thing to the sober vets as well as the old drunks.
When you are an occupying force in someone else's country you are going to be killed. Just because your government tells you it's a noble cause doesn't make it so.
Nor did Hanoi Jane cause the death of anyone. You were being killed before and after she was there and would have regardless.
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