James Stockdale
James Stockdale
James Bond Stockdalewas an American and United States Navy vice admiral. He was awarded the Medal of Honor in the Vietnam War where he was a prisoner of war for over seven years...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWar Hero
Date of Birth23 December 1923
CountryUnited States of America
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It just - the whole thing reminded me of a May pole dance. I was standing there trying to figure out how I could get my oar in and never really did.
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I was commanding officer of a supersonic fighter squadron, FA Crusaders.
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And so, I mean, he declared war right there and then in so many words and Alex says later in the book, nobody in the White House from that point on had any doubt that we were going to bomb the mainland of Asia.
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Sybil's my wife, and on the first day of October, that's the first time I knew Ross was going to run.
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I mean, I really think that I would expect somebody that's leading the country to have some kind of - some kind of courage physically, personally.
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I was tortured fifteen times, that's total submission. They did that with shutting off your blood circulation with ropes, giving you claustrophobia and pain at the same time, bending you double.
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They were heading out to the middle of the bay - the Gulf - that's another thing that became kind of standard practice, we didn't hurry the destroyers around the beach any more, when it got dark, we'd take 'em out thirty or forty miles out in the middle of the Tonkin Gulf.
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There was nothing there but black water and American fire power.
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So the first thing that went on was to decide... trying to find a time when we could get reprisal raids out.
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But there were highs as well as lows, it was as though they said everybody was picking on the man who had more practical real life experiences than the whole batch of them put together.
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And we had our own laws. I mean, I wrote them. And we had our own customs, and traditions, and proprieties.
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We couldn't generalize on the people. Some of them were known to be tough guys and they didn't say much, but some of them were kind of soft-headed, but they did that. That was an East German film.
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