He also refused because of the experience of a POW who had agreed to meet with some other Americans in the 'peace' movement. The 'peace' people commanded the POW to confess to war crimes. When he refused, repeatedly and adamantly, he heard a 'peace' person suggest to his captors that 'this young man needs to be straightened out in his thinking'. Fonda returned home to report on how well the prisoners were being treated. This is consistent with left radicals of the 1930's returning from the Soviet Union and reporting in glowing terms, in some cases after having walked over killing fields, how great and glorious life was in the workers paradise.
Communism certainly is a strange and fanatical faith.
For her perfidious behavior, Hanoi Jane has lived a life here in Capitalist America that the rest of us can only fanaticize about. She's the type of leftist that revels in the rhetoric without the least thought to the oppression, poverty and carnage her advocacy has caused millions of others. If Fonda had lived in one of the paradises she so admires and had acted in the same treasonous way, she would, no doubt, have been mowed down by a firing squad. The fact that she is alive and free is a testament to how free and tolerant America really is.