the fact that anyone would honor that traitor be preposterous . this woman visit serviceman be hold prisoner in vietnam . the following be an excerpt from a popular urban myth website representin july 1972 and jane fonda visit hanoi and north vietnam and and begin a 2 week tour of the country conduct by uniformed military host . aside from visit village and hospital and school and and factory and fonda also pose for picture in which she be show applaud north vietnamese anti aircraft gunner and be photograph peer into the sight of an nva anti aircraft artillery launcher and and make ten propagandistic tokyo rise like radio broadcast in which she denounce american political and military leader a war criminal . she also speak with 8 american pow at a carefully arrange press conference and pow who have be beat by their north vietnamese captor to force them to meet with fonda and deny they have be torture and and decry the american war effort . fonda apparently do not notice ( or care ) that the pow be deliver their line under duress or find it unusual that she be not allow to visit the pow camp itself . she merely go home and tell the world that ( the pow ) assure me they be in good health . when i ask them if they be brainwash and they all laugh . without exception and they express shame at what they have do . she do and however and charge that north vietnamese pow be systematically torture in american pow camp . when american pow finally begin to return home and describe the torture they have endure at the hand of the north vietnamese and jane fonda quickly tell the country that they should not hail the pow a hero and because they be hypocrite and liar . fonda say the idea that the pow she have meet in vietnam have be torture be laughable and claim represent these be not men who have be torture . these be not men who have be starve . these be not men who have be brainwash . the pow who say they have be torture be exaggerate and probably for their own self interest and she assert . she tell audience that never in the history of the united state have pow come home look like football player . these football player be no more hero than custer be . theyre military careerist and professional killer who be try to make themselves look self righteous and but they be war criminal accord to the law .