EllaDean, the article you sent, "Never Forgive a Traitor" is not true. Having said that, I still wonder about Hanoi Jane. Was she really so stupid that she did not know what was going on or was she a willing traitor? I think she was both--a traitor and stupid. Maybe she thought the U.S. would become communist and she would have a heads-up. I was 31 back when Jane Fonda made an anti-war tour of North Vietnam in 1972, during which, she actually did pose for photo ops with Communist troops and broadcast anti-American propaganda over Radio Hanoi. She also participated in a staged press conference with unwilling American POWs, the purpose of which was to "prove" that American prisoners weren't being mistreated by their Viet Cong captors. Later, when the then-released POWs described the very real torture and degradation they had suffered at the hands of the North Vietnamese, Fonda dismissed them as "hypocrites and liars." Her behavior at the time, considered treasonous by some, earned Fonda the nickname "Hanoi Jane" among the veterans and POWs of the Vietnam War. You are right that some of the internet story is not true but she did enough to earn a bad reputation. "She did enough to place her name in the trash bin of history," Mike McGrath, of the Nam-POWs organization, explained. "None of us need to make up stories on her."
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