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01-31-07, 11:31 AM
Former POW says anti-war protests are anti-American
By Chad Groening
AgapePress
January 31, 2007
(AgapePress) -- Jane Fonda was being "anti-American" when she marched against the Vietnam War in the 1970s, and she was exhibiting the same mindset over the weekend in Washington, according to a former Vietnam-era prisoner of war. Retired Air Force Col. Smitty Harris also says he doesn't expect Fonda's more recent march to have much of an effect on public opinion.
A Vietnam veteran who spent nearly eight years in a North Vietnamese prisoner of war camp says he doesn't think this past weekend's anti-war demonstration in Washington, DC, will have the same effect similar rallies had during his era. The rally featured none other than Jane Fonda, who many Vietnam-era veterans still call "Hanoi Jane." She told the crowd that it was her first anti-war demonstration in 34 years.
Retired Air Force Colonel Smitty Harris was one of the former POWs featured in the 2004 documentary Stolen Honor: Wounds that Never Heal. He says Fonda's actions at the recent march were "anti-American" -- just as they were in the 70s. But Harris does not think this weekend's protest march will have much of an effect on public opinion.
"It was big news during the Vietnam era when they had these marches ... because people didn't have all the alternative ways of finding out what is true and what's not," he shares. "So I don't think it's going to have a big effect." In fact, he says, it could even be counterproductive.
Today, Harris points out, Americans have talk radio and media outlets like the Fox News Channel to hear the voices of those who do not agree with Jane Fonda's point of view.
Ellie
By Chad Groening
AgapePress
January 31, 2007
(AgapePress) -- Jane Fonda was being "anti-American" when she marched against the Vietnam War in the 1970s, and she was exhibiting the same mindset over the weekend in Washington, according to a former Vietnam-era prisoner of war. Retired Air Force Col. Smitty Harris also says he doesn't expect Fonda's more recent march to have much of an effect on public opinion.
A Vietnam veteran who spent nearly eight years in a North Vietnamese prisoner of war camp says he doesn't think this past weekend's anti-war demonstration in Washington, DC, will have the same effect similar rallies had during his era. The rally featured none other than Jane Fonda, who many Vietnam-era veterans still call "Hanoi Jane." She told the crowd that it was her first anti-war demonstration in 34 years.
Retired Air Force Colonel Smitty Harris was one of the former POWs featured in the 2004 documentary Stolen Honor: Wounds that Never Heal. He says Fonda's actions at the recent march were "anti-American" -- just as they were in the 70s. But Harris does not think this weekend's protest march will have much of an effect on public opinion.
"It was big news during the Vietnam era when they had these marches ... because people didn't have all the alternative ways of finding out what is true and what's not," he shares. "So I don't think it's going to have a big effect." In fact, he says, it could even be counterproductive.
Today, Harris points out, Americans have talk radio and media outlets like the Fox News Channel to hear the voices of those who do not agree with Jane Fonda's point of view.
Ellie