[k9handler]

I am not that old but I am aware of what my fellow soldiers went through in Vietnam...read below

From 1963-65, Col. Larry Carrigan was in the 47FW/DO
> (F-4E's). He spent 6 years in the
> "Hilton"- the first three of which he was "missing in action." His wife
> lived on faith that he was still alive. His group, too, got the cleaned,
> fed, clothed routine in preparation for a "peace delegation" visit.
>
> They, however, had time and devised a plan to get word to the world
> that they still survived. Each man secreted a tiny piece of paper,
> with his SSN 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 grateful 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 the little pile of
> papers. Three men died from the subsequent beatings. Col. Carrigan was
> almost number four but he survived, which is the only reason we know
> about her actions that day.