Vietnam vets protest Jane Fonda's Broadway show. Should Vietnam vets forgive Jane Fonda? (treason, speech)
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Gee, that makes you a good person.
Good think that you aren't given the opportunity to murder people who you disagree with.
Or do you want others to do your dirty work for you?
A post like yours tells me some people don't have anything between their ears but air.
I actually agree with people who say that the veterans deserve respect. However, shouldn't that have applied to John Kerry during the 2004 election? The Swift Boat Vets were every bit as unpatriotic as Jane Fonda. I guess patriotism can only be applied to post-war hawk draft dodgers like Bush and the real veterans and heroes of the war should have their records ruined by people who weren't even there for political expediency. Hardly sounds fair to me.
I disagree. I can separate my support for the military and my feelings about the war. What about Obama's campaign arguments against Hillarys that he would have voted against the Iraq War? Are you mad at him because he said that?
We were the aggressors in that war. Alot of Americans fought there and they paid a heavy price. Many died there or brought their problems (and their injuries) back to the U.S. with them. Many died young after their return home, and many went homeless as well. As heavy a cost as paid by these men (and sometimes women) the price paid by the citizens of Vietnam was even higher.
To forgive would be the right thing to do, as Jane Fonda really did nothing but exercise her right to free speech, and all this talk about how its "treason" is silly, it was North Vietnamese propaganda, not treason.
The real tragedy is the ghosts of Vietnam were ignored by men who invaded Iraq while working to avoid serving in Vietnam
"To forgive would be the right thing to do, as Jane Fonda really did nothing but exercise her right to free speech, and all this talk about how its "treason" is silly, it was North Vietnamese propaganda, not treason."
You really don't have a clue what you are talking about do you?
Jane Fonda is a fine example of how American justice works. She is an American traitor that is living a life of luxury in the country she betrayed. She should have been prosecuted and sentenced to death by firing squad.
However, because of who she is and the money in her family she is allowed to go free.
All Americans, and it seems there are fewer and fewer of them in America these days, should boycott anything connected with Jane Fonda.
Considering she did a prime time interview in depth apology 20(?) odd years ago, candidly admitting that she was young and foolish and deeply regretted her actions, the statute of limitations alone makes it moot.
Same folks who want to harp on her words aren't blaming the half of america that wrongfully blamed them for war when it was the leadership that directed them to be there. They'll look the other way when elected officials wrongfully send soldiers into someone else's civil war? Thrice??!!! Celebrity figures ought to be more accountable than elected officials/ commander in chief???
I guess once you've got a claim to fame being a victim it becomes a handy identity to lean on for the rest of your life. What a waste. Those aren't the soldiers and sailors I know, and they diminish the respect they deserve by their own actions. I'll put my back up against the wall for rehab, focus on transition back into civilian life, demand my elected officials properly fund restoring them as much as humanly possible, make sure their stories get a platform, but I'll be damned if I feed VFW drunks wallowing in pity parties in perpetuity.
More productive use of their energy would be spent educating america to ensure our present tense troops never take the political abuse in the streets that they endured returning home from vietnam. Ignorance ran rampant in civilian youth, it was wrong, and that history should never be repeated.
How has the era been portrayed in childrens textbooks? I have no grade school kids to check.
Wow, I had no idea we had so many traitor lovers in this country.
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Thrice??!!!
