A veteran of the war in Vietnam waited patiently on line at a Jane Fonda booksigning in Kansas City Tuesday night and spit tobacco juice in her face when it was his turn to get his book signed. “I consider it a debt of honor,” Michael A. Smith is quoted as saying in an Associated Press wire story by Tim Curran. “She spit in our faces for 37 years. It was absolutely worth it. There are a lot of veterans who would love to do what I did.” Smith ran away afterwards but was “quickly caught by police,” who charged him with disorderly conduct, despite the fact that Fonda refused to press charges. Vivian Jennings of Rainy Day Books, sponsor of the event, which had drawn 900 people, says Fonda wiped her face and continued to sign copies of her memoir, My Life So Far, despite the attack. Jennings tells the A.P. Fonda “was so calm and so gracious about it. She was wonderful.”