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Jane Fonda Peace Agreement, through 1975, when the United States withdrew from Vietnam. Because of her tour of North Vietnam during wartime and the subsequent rumors circulated about her visit, resentment against her among some veterans and currently serving U.S. military still exists. For example, when a U.S. Naval Academy plebe ritually shouted out "Goodnight, Jane Fonda!", the entire company of midshipmen plebes, who had not yet been born when Fonda protested against the Vietnam War, replied "Goodnight, bitch!" This practice has since been prohibited by the academy's "Plebe Summer Standard Operating Procedures". In 2005, Michael A. Smith, a U.S. Navy veteran,