[ Post a Response | Our Oprah Community ]
Posted by Bill
on December 10, 2008, 2:31 am, in reply to "Re: politics"
64.72.41.230
LT. C. Thomsen Wieland
http://www.nampows.org/nampowslist.html
http://www.pownetwork.org/w1.htm
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pow/powhome.html < this is the Library of Congress
no such name found.
Just more crap on the web that ignorance spreads.
--Previous Message--
: In Memory of
: my brother-in-law
: LT. C. Thomsen Wieland
: who spent 100 days at the Hanoi Hilton
: She really was a traitor
:
: A TRAITOR IS ABOUT TO BE HONORED
: KEEP THIS MOVING ACROSS AMERICA
: This is for all the kids born in the 70's
: who do
: not remember, and didn't have to bear the
: burden that our fathers, mothers and older
: brothers and sisters had to bear.
: Jane Fonda is being honored as one of the
: '100 Women of the Century.'
: BY BARBRA WALTERS
: Unfortunately, many have forgotten and still
: countless others have never known how Ms.
: Fonda betrayed not only the idea of our
: country,
: but specific men who served and sacrificed
: during Vietnam
:
: The first part of this is from an F-4E pilot
: The pilot's name is Jerry Driscoll, a River
: Rat.
: In 1968, the former Commandant of the USAF
: Survival School was a POW in Ho Lo Prison
: the ' Hanoi Hilton.'
: Dragged from a stinking cesspit of a cell,
: cleaned, fed, and dressed in clean PJ's, he
: was
: ordered to describe for a visiting American
: 'Peace Activist' the 'lenient and humane
: treatment' he'd received.
: He spat at Ms. Fonda,
: was clubbed and was dragged away.
: During the subsequent beating, he fell
: forward
: on to the camp Commandant 's feet which
: sent that officer berserk
: In 1978, the Air Force Colonel still
: suffered from
: double vision (which permanently ended his
: flying career) from the Commandant's
: frenzied
: application of a wooden baton.
: From 1963-65, Col. Larry Carrigan was in the
: 47FW/DO (F-4E's). He spent 6 years in the
: 'Hanoi Hilton',,, the first three of which
: his
: family only knew he was 'missing in action'.
: His wife lived on faith that he was still
: alive.
: His group, too, got the cleaned-up, fed and
: get word to the world that they were alive
: and still survived.. Each man secreted a
: tiny
: piece of paper, with his Social Security
: Number
: on it, in the palm of his hand..
: When paraded before Ms. Fonda and a
: cameraman, she walked the line, shaking each
: man's hand and asking little encouraging
: snippets like: 'Aren't you sorry you bombed
: babies?' and 'Are you gratefu l for the
: humane
: treatment from your benevolent captors?'
: Believing this HAD to be an act, they each
: palmed her their sliver of paper.
: She took them all without missing a beat. At
: the
: end of the line and once the camera stopped
: rolling, to the shocked disbelief of the
: POWs,
: she turned to the officer in charge and
: handed
: him all the little pieces of paper.
: Three men died from the subsequent beatings.
: Colonel Carrigan was almost number four
: but he survived, which is the only reason we
: know of her actions that day.
: I was a civilian economic development
: advisor
: in Vietnam , and was captured by the North
: Vietnamese communists in South Vietnam in
: 1968, and held prisoner for over 5 years.
: I spent 27 months in solitary confinement;
: one
: year in a cage in Cambodia ; a nd one year
: in a 'black box' in Hanoi .
: My North Vietnamese captors deliberately
: poisoned and murdered a female missionary, a
: nurse in a leprosarium in Ban me Thuot,
: South
: Vietnam , whom I buried in the jungle near
: the
: Cambodian border.
: At one time, I weighed only about 90 lbs.
: (My normal weight is 170 lbs.)
:
: We were Jane Fonda's 'war criminals.'
: When Jane Fonda was in Hanoi , I was asked
: by
: the camp communist political officer if I
: would
: be willing to meet with her.
: I said yes, for I wanted to tell her about
: the real
: treatment we POWs received... and how
: different it was from the treatment
: purported by
: the North Vietname se, and parroted by her
: as
: 'humane and lenient.'
: Because of this, I spent three days on a
: rocky
: floor on my knees, with my arms outstretched
: with a large steel weights placed on my
: hands,
: and beaten with a bamboo cane.
: I had the opportunity to meet with Jane
: Fonda
: soon after I was released.
: I asked her if she would be willing to
: debate me on TV..
: She never did answer me.
: These first-hand experiences do not
: exemplify
: someone who should be honored as part of
: '100 Years of Great Women.'
: Lest we forget...' 100 Years of Great Women'
: should never include a traitor whose hands
: are
: covered with the blood of so many patriots.
: There are few things I have strong visceral
: reactions to, but Hanoi Jane's participation
: in
: blatant treason, is one of them.
:
: Please take the time to forward to as many
: people as you possibly can.
: It will eventually end up on her computer
: and
: she needs to know that we will never forget.
:
: RONALD D. SAMPSON, CMSgt, USAF
: 716 Maintenance Squadron, Chief of
: Maintenance
: DSN: 875-6431
: COMM: 883-6343
:
34
Message Thread:
« Back to thread