Question: Why don't you talk about the Vietnam war on the site?

We generally don't cover Jane's protesting in the Vietnam war. This subject is such a huge one to follow, that to do it justice, we'd have to create another site down to each and every detail. Jane Fonda has publicly addressed the issue, many times to count. It has been spoken about, and as time goes by, her apologies become more frequent. Most recently, in an Oprah interview.

There are so many sites on the topic of Vietnam, Veterans and several sites on "Hanoi Jane", these sites are forums for this topic. If you are looking into discussing this with people of a like mind, then type Hanoi Jane in to Google.

Oprah: Is there part of you that wants to deny the privilege you came from?
Jane Fonda: No. It had to do with the Vietnam War. I was living in France with Roger Vadim, who was a major movie star. I was pregnant with Vanessa, I had blonde hair and I was looking at TV from France and seeing the antiwar movement here in the United States. The French were saying to me. "Your country is crazy to be there. Look what you're doing - you're bombing hospitals!" And I would say to them, "No we're not, My father fought in World War II , and we would never do that." But then I talked to the guys back from Vietnam, and I realized we were doing those things. And I was living this fun but rather empty life.

Jane Fonda: "I wasn't thinking in those terms. I was thinking look at those people back in my country. I didn't want to be in France saying my country was wrong to be in Vietnam. I wanted to be home, to know what was going on here. So I packed a bag and sold everything I had, and I can here and lived in my father's servant's quarters, traveled around the country, got into a lot of trouble."

Oprah: How did you handle the hostility? A whole country - to a great extent turned against you.
Jane Fonda: "Not a whole country. Coming home was like getting in a warm bath - there were people who really looked at me and asked me questions, like, "Who are you? What do you believe in?" I made new friends, including Tom Hayden. I met people who were living for more than just themselves. When I first returned from France, I was about to close a lease of a house way up on a hill in Bel Air, and then I was driving cross-country, headed east to do Klute, and I had an epiphany: I didn't want to be one of those people who live on a hill and do fund-raisers, and then dole out money. I wanted to live at the bottom of the hill, with the people I was working with. So I canceled the lease."

Oprah: But as a person who wanted to please - to be liked - how did you handle been seen as a traitor?
Jane Fonda: I put a callus over my heart . I felt that what we were doing was right. And I had a strong network of friends, and I just went ahead. Except for intimacy, I'm very brave! You have to stay vulnerable to be open to intimacy, to keep learning and growing. You have to be able to say, "I was wrong." You have to accept responsibility for your mistakes and learn from them.

Oprah: Have you done that?
Jane Fonda: I will go to my grave regretting the photograph of me in an antiaircraft carrier, which looks like I was trying to shoot at American planes. That had nothing to do with the context that my photograph was taken in. But it hurt so many soldiers. It galvanized such hostility. It was the most horrible thing I could possibly have done. It was just thoughtless. I wasn't thinking; I was just so bowled over by the whole experience that I didn't realize what it would look like.