(Via Milinet)

28 June 2000

MILINET: Hanoi Jane At Gettysburg

By: Jerry Barnes and posted on "Vietnam Helicopter Flight Crew
Network"

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For those of you who have no liking for Jane Fonda, Ted
Turner's ex-wife,
"Hanoi Jane", I will recount a little story. I was the Chief of
Staff to
the Confederate General who was overall commander of the 6000
troops in
the historical movie Gettysburg.

As actors, we volunteered to TNT, who was making the movie;
receiving a one
time payment of $25.00 for travel expenses and food while on
site. We each
also received a medal stamped Killer Angels" (original book's
name).
Two incidents involve Hanoi Jane. The first was on the day when
Ted Turner
made his cameo appearance in the movie. For those who have the
movie, he is
the white-haired officer who dies climbing over the fence in a
charge. Now
movies, for the uninitiated, are boring to be in unless you are
a star. I
had brought up a battalion, about 700 men, up on a road in the
hot sun to
await the setup of the cameras.


Hanoi Jane and Ted arrived in a helicopter for the take. Hanoi
Jane walked
down to around the center of the battalion to see the troops,
and accept
the adulation she expected her hubby's employees would give
her. Most of
the troops present were North Carolinians, many from Fort
Bragg.


The Colonel commanding the battalion reported to me and
informed me his
troops were nonplused by Hanoi Jane's presence and asked my
permission to
make a troop movement to ease their feelings. What then
happened, I will
never forget.


He called his men to attention. Hanoi Jane, seeing the
activity, smiled
expecting some show for her benefit, and walked to the front of
rightmost
company.

The Colonel continued his orders and commanded the company in
front of
which she stood, "B Company! To the rear! By the right about
Face! ..
Stand at ease!"


One hundred men pivoted gave her their backs.
Taking the action for what it was, Hanoi Jane beat a hasty
retreat down the
line towards the helicopter. The Colonel followed her progress
down the
battalion with the same disrespectful salute, reversing each
company just
as she reached the front of the company. Ten minutes later the
copter left
and we saw her no more that day.


"I gave the Colonel a written commendation, mentioned in the
next day's
orders for his innovation, extra rest for his battalion, and
first place in
the marching order. God bless the Tarheels and the Old North
State."


Amen...

Good for the North Carolina troops. Hanoi Jane got what she deserved. Let's never forget what she did to our P.O.W.'s

We here in Carter County Oklahoma have what we call The Red River
Chapter of the Gulf of Tonkin Club. We have a reunion on the last Saturday of January each year. The highlight of the reunion is "The Burning of the Bitch. We select two lucky contestents and they get their trusty Zippos out and burn a poster of Hanoi Jane.

TOO BAD THEY DIDN'T MOON HER ALSO.

Come to think of it, I know lotsa old-time Marines woul have done just that!!!

Dick

Traitors to our country and armed forces should never be allowed
to live down their offenses.

why didn't you shoot down the helicopter????
Great Work
G

That bitch , should have been arrested, convicted and placed before a firing squad as soon as she put her foot back on US property . Her appologizes were/have been hollow ,given under pressure from publicity, and she NEVER did actually appologize for all the things she said and did in Vietnam.

I encourage all those who despise Hanoi jane as much as I do, to boycott any and all of her movies, exercise videos, and Fonda's family movies, which she makes millions of dollars on yearly.