“So when you say it was a terrible mistake …” Wallace prompted again.
“It was a mistake to go, I never wanted to go to any military installations. It was the last day of my two week time there. And I was like a limp noodle, what I had experienced and what I had seen, I just I wasn’t able to resist, they said we’re gonna take you out here today,” Fonda continued.
Fonda went on to say that the photos showing her smiling were taken after someone had sung a song that made her laugh, not because she was mocking the situation.
“And you know, maybe I was set up, but I was an adult, it’s I’m gonna take responsibility for it,” she said. “If I was Vietnamese, I probably would have tried to do the same thing, you know, but I should not have gone.”
[ She’s still minimizing. Fonda shouldn’t have been there in the first place. She could have gotten just as much attention by protesting the war at home, but she chose to go to North Vietnam specifically to stand with them against the US. She was a willing stooge well before the last day of her visit. The visit to the military installation was merely a photo op that distilled her treachery into a single photograph. — Ed]
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