Re: [at-l] Say No To Hanoi Jane

["Gary from Newport News" <gsherck@worldnet.att.net>]

Let me just add one small part.

Along with the forgiveness, which I believe is so very necessary in this
world today, maybe, just maybe, this email that JohnO has shared with us,
which will now have Sawnie's p.s. attached, may get to Ms. Fonda.  We should
try to circulate this to the whole country.  Then, Ms. Fonda, may hear that
small voice inside of her, and truly ask the world and especially the Nam
vets for forgiveness.  She, as with anyone, could receive the forgiveness
that she must need, if she has today, the common sense to see what was
really going on.

Therefore, when you think of the publicly JohnO's message will get, we may
see a new Jane Fonda.

thanks Sawnie for your wise words.

life is good,
Gary

----- Original Message -----
From: <HikingHope@aol.com>
To: <johno@mail.monmouth.com>; <at-l@backcountry.net>
Sent: Sunday, October 24, 1999 12:38 PM
Subject: Re: [at-l] Say No To Hanoi Jane


> Thank you for passing on this information, for going to the trouble to
tell
> me in specific, lengthy detail exactly why there is so much seething anger
> towards this woman even today, even after her public apology.  I now
> understand, really understand, about something that I had found perplexing
> before, the inability of Nam vets to forgive this high-profile woman who
got
> caught up in the craziness of the 1960s when many of we who had been
brought
> up during WWII were finding out that our knee-jerk belief in our leaders
was,
> perhaps, being used to allow them to do some evil stuff with us backing
what
> we would not have agreed to if we had not been misled.
>
> Understanding the confusion in the midst of our own government's lies?
> Understanding the naivete of this woman in her youth?  Her misplaced
anger.
> I don't know, but I do know that just as with those who have harmed me on
a
> personal level, the only route today is forgiveness.  Don't have to like
her,
> don't have to allow her to do anything like that again, but do want to
> forgive her--because she, like all of us, has done the unforgivable with
her
> feet of clay.
>
> God bless.
>
> Sawnie
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