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Originally Posted by jimmyf
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DonovanPhillips post about 3/4 down
And about that snopes story:
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So what you are saying is that this is false?:
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The most serious accusations in the piece quoted above ? that Fonda turned over slips of paper furtively given her by American POWS to the North Vietnamese and that several POWs were beaten to death as a result ? are proveably untrue. Those named in the inflammatory e-mail categorically deny the events they supposedly were part of.
"It's a figment of somebody's imagination," says Ret. Col. Larry Carrigan, one of the servicemen mentioned in the 'slips of paper' incident. Carrigan was shot down over North Vietnam in 1967 and did spend time in a POW camp. He has no idea why the story was attributed to him, saying, "I never met Jane Fonda."
The tale about a defiant serviceman who spit at Jane Fonda and is severely beaten as a result is often attributed to Air Force pilot Jerry Driscoll. He has repeatedly stated on the record that it did not originate with him.
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Care to give any reliable source of information that proves this wrong? Or you simply prefer to believe that snopes simply decided to make that up because they felt pity for Jane Fonda? If that was wrong, and that Col. Larry Carrigan did meet Jane Fonda during his time as a POW, and got beat up after slipping her a slip of paper, wouldn't he want to write to snopes to let them know they've got it wrong?
Anyway... as I've already said in my previous post, what is annoying is not people bashing Jane Fonda, which she deserves for what she did, but only that people just make up stuff on top of real events to push their agenda further. If only they stuck to the facts, they could let people make up their mind based on reality instead of fiction...