American Sniper

Devil Dawg

Just recently read about Jane Fonda (I've forgotten where I read this) offering an apology of sorts for her actions in Viet Nam. It might've been on-line somewhere. Anyways, she said the photo of her on the AAA battery was a set-up. She had no idea they were gonna take a photo of her sitting there. She had asked to sit down, the soldiers guided her over there (she wasn't paying attention to where she was being guided), and before she noticed what she was sitting on, they snapped the picture. Could be true... Maybe not.

     I remember seeing footage of her in Nam, where I think she might have been at that same AAA battery.  And she was asked "If an American aircraft flew overhead what would you do?"  Or something to that effect, and she responded with "I'd shoot it down."

     IF that is true, it kind of casts doubts on her comment that you're recalling.

     Either way, I as you and others have said, feel that she needs to answer for her actions during Nam.

DC- You need to get off the politics. It's not welcome here. We all try to get along without resorting to this kind of bad discussion.

Devil Dawg has it pretty much correct.

She's spent the last 40 years dealing with explanations of how that all went, so either you just aren't paying attention or you think the rest of the world isn't.

No where is there any credible record that she said what you repeated from wherever you got it.

"Something to that effect..". Nicely cited quote, sir.

I'm never going to like you or have any use for your contributions here since you pretty much hounded our friend Rex off of the forum. Bully.

"PS- Best keep politics/controversy out of this.  Just want to know how you saw it?  Hollywood-ish? Accurate?  Accurate w/ a side of Hollywood?"  

Hey guys I wrote this at the begging of the thread.  I enjoy an incite about history, politics etc as much as you guys but we just cant do that here.  I really don't want the thread locked.  

GMorrison,

     I did NOT "get on politics."  And I cannot help but notice that you didn't have anything to say to the first people who brought up Ms Fonda or Mr. Moore.  That you instead choose to say something to me about it.

     As for what I "repeated," it was in a film that was shown in class when I was in school and it was footage of her, not a re-enactment.

     As for what happened between Rex and me, if anyone wishes to discuss it you are free to contact me via the PM subsystem.

Gents,

This conversation has gone off track, so it's now closed.

Regards, Aaron