Jane Fonda's Advice

[7shooter]

Jane Fonda is starring as Nancy Reagan in the new film " The Butler " and when Viet Nam vets proposed a boycott of the film she told them to " Get a life ".

BTW, the Jane Fonda urinal targets are still available on line if you want to gift your local VFW or American Legion. The first one I saw was in a VA hospital. I used it.

 

[Straightshooter2]

I think I posted this before but I actually got to express my displeasure with Hanoi Jane in person. We were at a Braves game when Ted still owned the team and were on the same aisle as their box seats (albeit much further up the row). Jane came walking up the aisle shaking hands and smiling at people. I was on the end of our row and when she looked at me, I crossed my arms and turned my back. As I crossed my arms, her smile did falter a little but I'm sure she was used to it and I'm sure I was I wasn't the last person to ever do it to her. I WILL NOT be seeing that movie.

 

[gm272gs]

Here she is saying it was unforgivable. I for one, won't ever forgive her. She's a dirtbag. I'm glad she's going to take that guilt to her grave.

 

[M29since14]

I don't think most of us feel that we need her advice... about anything.

 

[PA Reb]

I won't even utter her name but I've always believed she was / is guilty of treason or, at the very least, a traitor ( Treason - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ). Its one thing to disagree with a war that is going on but quite another to not support our troops and openly display your disagreement by conspiring with the enemy while having pictures taken in front of a downed aircraft in which U.S. servicemen died. The Good Lord may someday forgive her but He's much more understanding than I am!

 

[TACC1]

I agree with all the above. I can't imagine how she could
think that memories would be that short. Since she received
no penalty, her actions meant/mean nothing to her.
Comes of being "more equal" I guess.
TACC1

 

[CGhelofxr]

I need her advise like I need Joe Biden's home defense advise.

 

[gdnagle]

I still won't watcher her in any shows or movies. There were people against the was but not many went to Hanoi and did a publicity stint. It's been a long time maybe I should forget but I can't 1972 was the year I left there.

Did she just sit here or did she pull the trigger?

 

[Mule Packer]

I still won't watcher her in any shows or movies. There were people against the was but not many went to Hanoi and did a publicity stint. It's been a long time maybe I should forget but I can't 1972 was the year I left there.
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Did she just sit here or did she pull the trigger?

At that particular moment, she was singing anti-war songs. Really.

 

[Wingmaster]

I would comment, but I would get banned for using profanities.

Wingmaster

 

[vigil617]

Here she is saying it was unforgivable. I for one, won't ever forgive her. She's a dirtbag. I'm glad she's going to take that guilt to her grave.

Thanks for posting the link to the video. I think it explains some things that aren't evident from the infamous photograph by itself, or from the hatred of "Hanoi Jane" that has followed from it. Anyone who has an opinion about Jane Fonda related to this incident should watch the video and determine for himself whether his opinion about her is valid. If it is, fine then. If it isn't, then forgiveness is certainly an option, as it was for the Nam vets who met with her in '88 in Connecticut.

Me personally, I have a better understanding now. Not that I don't still disagree with her about other things, or about whether visiting the North at that time was a good idea or just something that a stupid kid decided to do. I was a stupid kid too once, as were many of us I guess. But I can see how she probably got manipulated in this, and that though she was a willing participant, she was being used.

When I think back to the Vietnam era -- and those of you who fought over there, I salute you for your service -- I think about all the craziness over there and over here at the same time, and it reminds me of one of my favorite lines in The Outlaw Josey Wales, at the end of the movie, when Josey says of the Civil War: "I guess we all died a little in that damn war."

 

[gdnagle]

Don't forget she didn't denounce anything until she started getting hit by the fallout of her actions and was having problems landing good jobs. She stated she was tricked into sitting there, was she also tricked into haveing her picture taken with the enemy at the time and their weapons that may have killed americans. Would you not try to change public opinion about yourself so that you could return to show biz, I know I would. She also had a opposition to the Iraq War. Is she sincere about it only she knows. I remember someone else at a much later tims saying "Ï'm not gonna take your guns" That is turning out to be not true.Words are cheap actions speak the truth.

 

[Double-O-Dave]

Me and Mrs. Double-O will celebrate our 25th wedding anniversary this year. Mrs. Double-O has always like Fonda. I am happy to report that after 25 years, Mrs. Double-O, without prompting, has taken to calling her "Hanoi Jane, that no good ______". She still watches her movies, but give me another 25 years...

Regards,

Dave

 

[M&P Freak]

She makes me want to install a urinal in the bathroom just so I can put one of those targets to good use on a daily basis. Jane Fonda as Nancy Reagan is an insult in itself. No thanks!

 

[Sayoc01]

I didn't go to Nam,#of my friends died there. I was going to college at that time & had a # of "disagreements" with anti's here! I'm not a kid anymore...but.....if you disagree....ok....BUT.....don't go OVER to the enemy & GLORIFY them!! The picture pissed me off THEN....still does!She says "I'M SORRY"for the pic!!What about everything else she said & did!!!"IF"it was WW2 she would have NEVER made it back to the USA!If it was me....I'd send her to NORTH NAM right now!!She supported them then....let her live with them now!Awww...sniff....she just wants to be forgiven & loved...so she can make MORE $$$$$I haven't seen any movies she's made since Nam & my $ won't make a diff.to her....but it does to me!
Jim

 

[mstuhr]

(albeit much further up the row). .

What a missed opportunity to shove her down the stairs!
Instant hero status,legal fees shared by thousands and never having to buy another beer while out for the rest of your life.
Might have been a good thing.
Thanks and I thank you for turning your back on her.
Mike

 

[Silver Dollar]

What does she expect from Viet Nam vets? Stupid is as stupid does. She made those broadcasts yet she's never been held accountable for them. Forgive, No. Forget, Hell no.

 

[straightshooter1]

I think what she did was wrong. And, she was hardly a "kid." She was in her early 30s, almost exactly 10 years to the day older than me.

But, hating her, does nothing good for me. Just like dwelling on Vietnam does nothing good for me. As a poster noted on another thread about VN, if you weren't there, you just won't understand the VN "experience." It's not your fault, it's just one of those "you had to be there" things.

I don't watch her movies, but, I have never heard of a movie she was in since the war that I would have watched regardless of who was starring in it.

So, I don't care if she plays Nancy, apparently Nancy doesn't object and I wouldn't see the movie anyway, even if Ann Margaret was in it (now that was a good VN experience).

I like my life now. It wasn't always that way and I don't want to slide, even a little bit, back to where I have been, at times, in the past.

Bob

 

[rwsmith]

How did she think

How did she think her visit to NV would be construed?? If a celebrity had visited Nazi Germany on an anti-war protest how would they expect their actions to be construed? Wouldn't they consider that they would be set up to be used as propaganda?

 

[silentflyer]

Would not walk across the street to urinate on her if she were on fire, much less watch a movie she was in..