I think Pongo's point is too easily missed.
And Jane's role here is given too much birth. Still...
If Fonda was in fact instrumental in ending the Vietnam War, through domestic dissent or whatever else, then there are literally thousands of grandchildren who are - at this very moment - hugging grandfathers who would otherwise not exist but because of her. Likewise the grandchildren.
Like ghosts, entire limbs of family trees would evaporate....... the lines shrinking unto themselves as if they never existed. Gone.
Sons of daughters, of sons and daughters, just gone.
What would the happy side of a victorious Vietnam war look like, anyways?
Cheaper Asian manufacturing?
I think we have that despite, no?
It was a stupid war, fought for the wrong reasons, fought badly, and unwinnable.
So if Jane jumps up and tells everyone that they're being retarded, there's a certain part of me that's gonna say "you go!"
And she did.
The very same conviction that compels some to blame her for Vietnam, is the very same conviction by which ghosts hold the bat in their hands in little league, with their fathers watching. Ghosts who make their dads cry in some school play. Ghosts whose stories will never be told.
