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: THE ACADEMY AWARDS, JANE FONDA and BAD TASTE : I have this running in a number of newspapers and radio stations around the country to include the NY Post. I have had good response. If you agree, would please forward this to your members, friends and the media. : ____________________________________ : Sam H. Hollis, Jr. : California Veterans Home Yountville : Yountville, CA 94599 : EMAIL: trooper1968@aol.com : ____________________________________ : Hundreds of thousands of Families, Friends and Vietnam Vets were deeply hurt and angered with the appearance of Ms Fonda on the Academy Awards. Many are without the means to make their feelings heard. : For them I'll express mine. : Yours truly, : Sam Hollis : ____________________________________ : LETTER TO THE EDITOR : FINAL DRAFT : ____________________________________ : OUR MEN AND WOMEN ARE NOT FORGOTTEN : I'm very disappointed with the Academy Awards for allowing Jane Fonda to participate. : It was in incredibly bad taste. : How is it that her treasonous acts during the Vietnam War can be so overlooked or forgotten? : Maybe it was her hair? : How is it possible to have forgotten her radio broadcast from Hanoi? : Telling our young troops to throw down their weapons and disobey their officers, further endangering our young men and women. : Maybe it was her gown? : How can we forget about a 19-year-old combat soldier down in the mud, surviving day-to-day in harms way, being called a War Criminal by a film icon and fellow countryman? : Maybe it was her neckline? : How is it easy to forget her speaking out against our POW's, claiming from the courtyard of : The Hanoi Hilton that they were not tortured, while they lay in the darkness of their prison cells broken in body - but God bless them not in spirit. : Maybe it was the earrings? : How can we forget her laugher while sitting in the seat of a North Vietnamese antiaircraft gun? : Maybe it was the adulation and applause from the seated audience? : For the last few days since the Awards the media has told all of us about Ms. Fonda's glamorous new make over. : Maybe by the next millennium history will read, "At the 79th Academy Awards Ms. Jane Fonda was sporting a new hairdo." : Then we can forget all the sons and daughters whose names appear on The Wall in Washington. : For many of us -- I think not! : Honor and Courage, : Sam H. Hollis, Jr. : U.S. Army : Combat Infantryman : A Company 1/8 : (Jumping Mustang) : First Cavalry Division : Vietnam 67-68

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