Full article at Scotsman.com here.
So, it seems that a Vietnam veteran spit tobacco juice into Jan Fonda's face at a book signing in Kansas.
She was signing her book "My Life So Far" which described her 1972 visit to Vietnam. Supposedly, the Vietnam vet believed that Fonda was a 'traitor' who spat in the faces of Vietnam vets.
What I'm amazed by is that he waited 90 minutes so that he could spit in her face.
That's dedication for you.
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I don't use the word "hero" very often, but that man is the greatest hero in American history.
Damn straight. I know that there are lots of 'Nam veterans who would gladly pay whatever fines this guy will have to shell out.
My dad's one of 'em.
My dad's one of 'em.
As someone who was born quite a while after the war ended, and who is from a country that never went near the whole mess, and with parents and grandparents who were also from countries that never went near the whole mess, I must say, I don't exactly get what Jane Fonda did. Was she a supporter of North Vietnam during the war? Did all the vets hate her BEFORE she apologised for doing whatever it was she did, or is it just now that she has turned "Traitor?". How did she end up sitting on a, to my understanding, North Vietnamese gun? Wasn't she American? Didn't the North Vietnamese rather hate Americans at the time?
More than a tad confused. I kind of thought she was a supporter of the communist side. But if that were the case, why would people all of a sudden hate her NOW, after she APOLOGISES for what she did? Wouldn't this be irrelevant and at least a decade or two too late?
More than a tad confused. I kind of thought she was a supporter of the communist side. But if that were the case, why would people all of a sudden hate her NOW, after she APOLOGISES for what she did? Wouldn't this be irrelevant and at least a decade or two too late?
Hanoi Jane
This site on snopes.com explains the whole thing pretty well, but basically she came out and said that the POWs who came back were filthy liars and murderers of children and didn't deserve respect or thanks or anything. She behaved in a despicable fashion towards our servicemen and I applaud what that vet did.
This site on snopes.com explains the whole thing pretty well, but basically she came out and said that the POWs who came back were filthy liars and murderers of children and didn't deserve respect or thanks or anything. She behaved in a despicable fashion towards our servicemen and I applaud what that vet did.
QUOTE(timmie89 @ Apr 22 2005, 12:22 AM)
As someone who was born quite a while after the war ended, and who is from a country that never went near the whole mess, and with parents and grandparents who were also from countries that never went near the whole mess, I must say, I don't exactly get what Jane Fonda did. Was she a supporter of North Vietnam during the war? Did all the vets hate her BEFORE she apologised for doing whatever it was she did, or is it just now that she has turned "Traitor?". How did she end up sitting on a, to my understanding, North Vietnamese gun? Wasn't she American? Didn't the North Vietnamese rather hate Americans at the time?
More than a tad confused. I kind of thought she was a supporter of the communist side. But if that were the case, why would people all of a sudden hate her NOW, after she APOLOGISES for what she did? Wouldn't this be irrelevant and at least a decade or two too late?
More than a tad confused. I kind of thought she was a supporter of the communist side. But if that were the case, why would people all of a sudden hate her NOW, after she APOLOGISES for what she did? Wouldn't this be irrelevant and at least a decade or two too late?
No, people have hated her for a long time for that. All of it. Her explaination of how she came to sit on the tank was that she needed to sit down, and didn't realize where she was sitting.
I would love to shake this guys hand. Naaa... Hug him.....
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