While Hanoi Jane Protests, Shauna Fleming Says Thanks

What a stark contrast between these two “California girls”. One a big, famous Hollywood celebrity, while the other is a average high school student attending a private school. Like the the March for Life on January 22nd which drew hundreds of thousands to Washington, D.C. to commemorate the 34th anniversary of the horrible Roe v. Wade decision, little was covered in the main stream media. Yet the so-called war protest in which Jane Fonda participated, drew a paltry 10,000 and got major media coverage. You can see the bias of the media. See the article entitled "What's the Difference? A Tale of Two Marches", it sheds a lot of insight on the disparity in media coverage. Likewise, I did not see this story of Shauna Fisher's great patriotism in any of the main stream media coverage.

Gary Bauer echoes the biased media coverage in his recent End of the Day Report in commenting, “While Big Media was waxing nostalgic about Jane Fonda’s recent return to the anti-war circuit, the story of Shauna Fleming is much bigger and far more noteworthy in my view. Miss Fleming launched a project that was taken on by her high school, Orange Lutheran in Orange, California, to collect one million “thank you” letters for our troops. In November, she received her 2.6 millionth letter, which was presented at the Pentagon yesterday. Shauna said, “This letter represents that every person serving in the United States armed forces has symbolically received a written ‘thank you’ from grateful Americans.”

According to an article on a U.S. Department of Defense website, on February 1st ”A Million Thanks” presented its milestone 2.6 millionth letter of support for the troops to the Defense Department’s top enlisted servicemember during a ceremony in his Pentagon office today.” A Million Thanks is Shauna Fleming's organization, see her website. In 2004, Shauna Fleming, then 15, started "A Million Thanks" letter campaign for the troops. Shauna has been trying to collect millions of letters of appreciation which she forwards to military men and women stationed all over the world.

What we have here is a tale of two women, Shauna and Jane, one a true patriot, one a traitor true. This is America were we will fight for your right Jane to have the freedom to decent, but you went too far in Vietnam protestations and you now are irrelevant and have no credibility in my eyes at least. Step aside and let Shauna have the spotlight.