Not long ago, I was speaking at a national conference for Vietnam veterans, and I touched on the importance of forgiving such notable figures as Jane Fonda, Richard Nixon, Lyndon Johnson, etc, The reactions were mixed, especially when I mentioned truly forgiving Jane Fonda, the Vietnam veteran's arch-enemy, for her activities during the war. One particular veteran who has been paralyzed and wheel-chair bound for twenty years, forgave her and got out of his wheel-chair and walked. As far as I know, he is still walking, and most of all he is praising the Lord for setting him free of his un-forgiveness.
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OMG i knew it
Jane Fonda is Jesus
So, the lesson here is, when you see people in wheelchairs, feel free to kick them because they are obvious sinners and deserve their god-given disability.
Yep im going with Lying for Jesus on this one. I imagine when he says "got out of his wheel-chair and walked", he ment "got out of his wheel-chair and stumbled around for a while before collapsing with the 'power of the holy sprit", or some other such excuse.
As a Vietnam vet, I can tell you that I never harbored any ill feelings for Jane Fonda. I thought she was a bit of a grandstander, but I understand why she went to Hanoi. She was used by the Hanoi government, and made herself look foolish, but I see nothing to "forgive" her for.
After all, my military experience was supposed to guarantee the right of everyone to make an ass of themselves.
I believe Churchill said something similar once; upon being voted out of office soon after the end of WWII, although deeply shaken, he simply said that the people's right to do exactly that had always been what he'd been fighting for. Though the story may be apocryphal, I don't doubt for an instant that he would have agreed with the sentiment.
After all these years of "Fonda makes the heart grow absent."
Now it's cool to "forgive" her for having an opinion? Sure, she did and said some things that in hindsight she probabaly wishes she hadn't, but who hasn't? Has any American woman been so villified?
The truth about Jane Fonda
I don't think she had anything to apologize for either, although I have to question the sincerity of her apologies after reading that article.
::snicker:: Never mind the twenty years of physical therapy, and please note he didn't mention the location of the injury -- a low-thoracic or lumbar SCI won't necessarily keep you "wheelchair-bound". (Gods, I hate that phrase!)
The reactions were mixed, especially when I mentioned truly forgiving Jane Fonda...
I can't really bash them for disliking Jane Fonda. She essentially s*** on American troops through her sucking up to the enemy troops.
One particular veteran who has been paralyzed and wheel-chair bound for twenty years, forgave her and got out of his wheel-chair and walked.
Bulls***.
Not only is glurge still lying, it also tends to be very nauseating: tastes like diabete!
Also, misplaced grudge much? AFAIK the only thing Fonda did was use her fame and her constitutional right to free speech to oppose a war she didn't agree with; she was neither the one who sent your imaginary vet to fight the war that left him crippled nor the one who did the actual crippling. The only people she might have caused to end up wheelchair-bound would be the victims of freak aerobics accidents...
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So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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