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Originally posted by Overpaid Slacker
Let's not forget Hanoi Jane, during her tour, scolding POW pilots "are you sorry you bombed babies?" The pilots, thinking it was an act (I mean it HAD to be an act, right?) each slipped her small bits of paper w/ their SSN's - so that when she got home, at least their families would know they're alive. Once the cameras were shut off, Hanoi promptly turned to the North Vietnamese officer and handed him the pieces of paper. The story goes that 3 of the pilots didn't survive the beatings that resulted. This story may or may not be true (I wasn't there, I don't know) but if it is, I am hard pressed to imagine anything more despicable than that act of self-righteous masturbation by that see you next tuesday.

By the way slacker, before you pass along libelous propaganda as possible fact you should research your subjects a little better.

Passing along internet chain letters is not the best way to educate yourself and your associates about reality.

http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/h/hanoijane.htm

How the email story about the POWs got started is not known, but it has been widely circulated.

TruthOrFiction.com located Jerry Driscoll who said that the accounts about him in the email are "...the product of a very vivid imagination" and he requests that people please stop passing it on to others.

TruthOrFiction.com also contacted Mike McGrath, President of NAM-POWs, who says the Larry Carrigan events never happened either. He says Carrigan calls the story a "hoax" and does not want to be associated with it. McGrath also says that some versions of the email include an account from a Dave Hoffman and that his story is true. Hoffman says he was tortured (hung by a broken arm) until he agreed to go before Jane Fonda. He was among a small group who witnessed one of her radio broadcasts for Hanoi.

The part of the email that begins with "To Whom it may concern" is true. It's a quote from an article titled SHAME ON JANE originally published on the Advocacy And Intelligence Index website on April 28, 1999 and written by Michael Benge who was a civilian captured by the North Vietnamese in 1968. In his statement, he also makes reference to a missionary nurse who died in captivity. For your interest, that was Betty Olsen, a Christian Missionary Alliance nurse from New York.