This email has been circulating for around for more than 10 years. As much as I dislike the treasonous and lying Jane Fonda who has never apologized to the Vietnam Veterans, I also dislike disinformation.  I must inform you that the email "Jane Fonda is being honored as one of the "100 Women of the Century." is a hoax (see: http://www.snopes.com/military/fonda.asp ).  

Although both Jerry Driscoll and Larry Carrigan were tortured by the North Vietnamese, both say what is stated in this email never happened and is a hoax.  You can find their disclaimer on the NAMPOW webpage.  Besides, why would the pilots hand anything to Jane Fonda for the North Vietnamese regularly broadcast propaganda programs featuring Jane Fond's ilk.  At least give the POWs some credit for not being brainwashed and stupid. 

The third part was excerpted from an article I wrote, "Not Fonda Jane", that was published in U.S. Veterans Dispatch.  However, the hoaxter cherry picked what he wanted from my article and put his own ending.  People researching the POW/MIA issues say that they cannot find any evidence in government archives that RONALD D. SAMPSON, CMSgt, USAF ever existed.  Unfortunately, you have fallen victim to an URBAN LEGEND. 

 Regards, Mike Benge VN POW '68-73       

UPDATE from Jean Libby:  today, September 18, 2009, President Barack Obama declared in honor of POW/MIA American veterans and active military in Iraq and Afghanistan.