After serving as the president of the Naval War College, Stockdale retired from the Navy in 1978 and embarked on a distinguished academic career, including a term as president of the Citadel, and 15 years as a senior research fellow at Stanford Universitys Hoover Institution. It was terribly frustrating because I remember I started with, "Who am I? You also have the option to opt-out of these cookies. He was awarded the Medal of Honor in the Vietnam War, during which he was a prisoner of war for over seven years. The engine is shot up, the hydraulics are gone, and Ive just got to get out of the airplane and I did. James Stockdale, seated, with production crew and fellow actors from Delicate Things, a new short film. U-S might be seen as United States but what it really means is Unity over Self. That was the first order. Its great that the kids in this film are getting their first on-screen credits. They pounded me, twisted me, they were zealous and pretty soon I was I didnt know what was happening to me because my face was in the dirt but everything was happening to me. I never went downtown. [36][37], Stockdale Center, the student center at Monmouth College in Monmouth, Illinois, which he attended prior to transferring to the Naval Academy, was dedicated in his honor in 1989. I never used it any other way. The guards took my clothes out and washed them. "Perot's Interim Partner Spent 7 Years As Pow", Stockdale, James B. And we knew we had eight guys that died in the ropes. Ho Chi Minh died last night and were in mourning. Well, Id anticipated that. Sybil tells interesting stories about the mindset of a lot of people. I got along all right, and he went with me. I was then called back to the test pilot school to be an instructor. These cookies will be stored in your browser only with your consent. I got my wings in 50 and then I got four years of many kinds of small ships and it was 54. I dont think that was an exception. James Stockdale appearing as Tomas on Derry Girls. Those were eight big tanks. Stockdale was a candidate for Vice President of the United States in the 1992 presidential election, on Ross Perot's independent ticket. That was a big screw-up. It was about mid-afternoon and they said, Okay, youve done okay, today. James Stockdale: I liked it because my dad liked it. Stockdale filed charges against two other officers (Marine Corps Lieutenant Colonel Edison W. Miller and Navy Captain Walter E. "Gene" Wilber) who, he felt, had given aid and comfort to the enemy. We took a train to Chicago and then got on the Baltimore and Ohio to Annapolis. In 1973, when I was waiting with a fort of other people in North Vietnam to get the American air transports to bring us out, a message came in to the American contingent and it said, Save 300 seats for the Laos prisoners. When it all boiled down, nine guys showed up. He and my mother were kind of at odds about my future. It was a great asset to him, and he never forgot it. My wife is a doctor. Things had happened. But by the time they got back my eyes were closed and there was no question about it. He came back to the peephole and I ducked down, just showing him my behind, which is all he could see because I was stooped over. This was 1943 so a lot of fighting had gone on and he was going back to be a Washington bureaucrat for a while and then back into the war. When we came back from that mission, the target was 95 percent destroyed. That meant as soon as it felt itself released, it would have a shield come up to slow it down so we wouldnt be getting hit with our own shrapnel. And then later when some books came out we know we had over a dozen, because these were guys that were put in those ropes even before they got into the prison. One of my original breakthroughs was self-disfiguration. He owns all the airplanes, flies them all, theyre all his. Academically, he ranked 130th among 821 graduates in his class. This means that we may include adverts from us and third parties based on our knowledge of you. And the way it was done was to get a long iron bar and shackle your legs to it, and then the man on the back would start weaving ropes through your arms to bend them backwards. [28], Perot eventually re-entered the race in the fall of 1992, with Stockdale still in place as the vice presidential nominee. Joseph Gerard Brennan, FOUNDATIONS OF MORAL OBLIGATION: The Stockdale Course, This page was last edited on 26 February 2023, at 21:55. Now every night on a carrier if youre flying fighters you have two planes on the catapults if youre in a dangerous area, ready to launch in an instants notice. Stockdale wound up in Hoa Lo Prison the infamous Hanoi Hilton where he spent the next seven years under unimaginably brutal conditions. Id known Hap for years. They were cleaning the room. They would arrange for pick-ups in helicopters and there would be conversations around the ship and you could sit down and listen to any of them. Six men have been arrested as part of the investigation so far. Thats the kind of eccentric animal hoarder Wilton plays here: As if tending a personal zoo from her home, Austin keeps rabbits in her kitchen and hedgehogs in the side table, while feed and fecal matter spill from every conceivable corner of her overstuffed menagerie. James, who has starred in productions by the Donaghmore-based Bardic Theatre, was selected from thousands of hopeful young actors to appear in A Christmas Star which will be produced for the Cinemagic International Film and Television Festival for Young People. She said, Youd think that when we were finally going to see this thing that we had been waiting eight years for there would have been gales of laughter. They were like they were ashamed of it and they were sweeping the floor and putting fluid on it that smelled like something in a funeral parlor. So I had a good year there. We could tell that Hanois water mains were out, the electric generators were out, and we didnt take advantage of that. Stockdale's decorations and awards include: Stockdale's official Medal of Honor citation reads: For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty while senior naval officer in the Prisoner of War camps of North Vietnam. We blew the oil storage tanks of them off the map. Theres so much guerilla-style casting now, with kids from estates being recruited and turning in real, raw performances. James Stockdale. It was 64. [7], Two nights later, on August 4, 1964, Stockdale was overhead during the second reported attack in the Tonkin Gulf. I went to him and he said, What do you want on the Crusaders? And I said, I want eight Zunis on either side. Deans Denise Seachrist and Bradley Bielski issued. In a 1999 interview with Jim Lehrer, Stockdale explained that the statements were intended as an introduction of himself and his personal history to the television audience:[28]. [33], The U.S. Navy has named a number of structures after Stockdale, including the Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USSStockdale(DDG-106), christened on May 10, 2008. I just try to keep on top of everything, setting a certain amount of time aside to do school work and then with rehearsals you need to set that time aside to do what you really enjoy., Read more: Irelands most capped athlete Shirley McCay on hanging up her hockey stick, Read more: Co Tyrone woman opens up about diabetes diagnosis at the age of 21. Dungannon actor James Stockdale is making waves in entertainment industry after a new short film starring the Royal School Dungannon student was showcased in Los Angeles. But at that time the commissar was rather youthful and rather glib and he spoke good English. For further details on A Christmas Star visit. The chapter is devoted to the analysis of ancient Stoic philosophy as a source of resilience for soldiers. -- (Hoover essays no. Well, then he ran and he got the turnkey and they came in and they got me out and they told me to put my hands up this is the typical prison shakedown position. However, his unfocused style for the rest of the debate (including asking the moderator to repeat one question because he didn't have his hearing aid turned on) made him appear confused and almost disoriented. As the torpedo boats turned for their North Vietnamese coastline, four F-8 Crusader fighter aircraft from USSTiconderoga(CV-14) arrived, and immediately attacked the retreating torpedo boats. If news or social media make you feel worse, take a break. I said to myself, God, maybe Im the problem here instead of the solution. I had said, Heres my orders. In January 1954, he was accepted into the United States Naval Test Pilot School at the Naval Air Station Patuxent River base in Southern Maryland, and he completed his training in July 1954. [23], Debilitated by his captivity and mistreatment, Stockdale could not stand upright and could barely walk upon his return to the United States, which prevented his return to active flying status. The torture of American prisoners ended, and treatment of all American POWs improved. None of them got medical training there [in Vietnam]. They just roughly doubled the strength of everything. Then we flew right here to the airport at the Navy base. My mum is from Donegal, and we used to come through the North every summer on our way there for holidays. During his twelve-year tenure at the Hoover Institution, Stockdale wrote and lectured extensively. He amassed more than a thousand hours in the F-8U Crusader, then the Navys hottest fighter. One beautifully orchestrated air-raid scene featuring iconic shots that would be right at home in The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp or Atonement may be a bit intense for younger audiences, as is the death of a key character, although as long as the elephant survives, the kids should be OK. An unflattering recreation of the moment on Saturday Night Live later that week, with Phil Hartman as Stockdale, cemented a public perception of Stockdale as slow-witted. And Christmas would come, and Christmas would go. It was our nickname for this place. They were just in the ante way when they were taken in. [39], The Admiral James & Sybil Stockdale Arena at South Kent School was named after Stockdale and his wife in April 2014.[40]. He graduated as a naval officer in 1946 and flew as a pilot from. A selfie from James on the set of Derry Girls. By The Newsroom 5th Oct 2016, 9:38am Updated 25th Oct 2016, 8:11pm Stockdale was accepted for flight training in June 1949 and reported to Naval Air Station Pensacola in Florida. James Hong gave a compelling speech at the 2023 SAG Awards when accepting the biggest honor of the evening with his cast mates for 'Everything . We were in the parlor car and I was sitting there listening to a three-star Admiral telling about his adventures up to that point. Even in the intelligence community, nobody disputes it now. Convinced of Stockdales determination to die rather than cooperate, the Communists ceased trying to extract bogus confessions from him. James Stockdale: We could have won the war if we had sent the B-52s in. Why am I here? As they walked me over to the other side of the camp and put me in a little privy-like place Id never seen before thats just full of cobwebs it would only accommodate one man and I think they were just doing something to get me out of that camp so that I knew Id go in Room 18 the next morning. The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category "Functional". I wouldnt have missed it, but I dont argue about the Vietnam War legitimacy or anything like that. Having programmed all manner of age-appropriate screenings in her 13-year tenure, Burney Keatings was struck by the thought that just maybe the time was ripe for the organisation to take a deep breath and make its own movie. And they went out and then they gave me you know, then through that other times Id used other devices. Now I know (Stockdale's name has) become a buzzword in this culture for doddering old man, but let's look at the record, folks. But we were not in alignment there as well as we were in some of the other places, so you can do the same thing with your hand under the door. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Necessary". He teaches philosophy at Stanford University, he's a brilliant, sensitive, courageous man. And then I went down into my ready room and started shooting the breeze. I can help you with that but youre going to have to teach me to fly jets. And he said, Its a deal. It was a very good friendship and we started making permanent friends. James Stockdale: I think it had a lot, but I never mentioned that name or stoicism, it never left my lips. Stockdale, James B. I starred in a short film called Heres Looking at You, Kid in 2018 and the director for that was Michael Lennox who also directs Derry Girls, he said. What was it about the Navy that attracted you? Admiral, wouldnt that make you an easy target for ground fire? They made them cognizant later of all the rules and regulations we had to follow. It's good to be informed, but it's also OK to cut back if it's making things harder. When Stockdale was discovered with information that could implicate his friends' so-called "black activities", he slit his wrists so they could not torture him into confession. Entrepreneur. You would see lines of firing men firing at each other. He was subsequently discovered and revived by the North Vietnamese who, convinced of his indomitable spirit, abated in their employment of excessive harassment and torture toward all of the prisoners of war.. And so I said, Ive got to change the status quo, and with that I got off from my traveling irons and went over and shut off the light, pulled back these blankets, and exposing the plate glass window, using the palm of my hand, which was relatively free I had enough freedom there, to get the long shards, pull the curtains back, turn on the light, get back in my chair and sit down and just start going like this. S is dom-dom-dom-dom-dom-dom and so forth. And I looked down there and he was, so help me, weeping, and not out of sympathy for me Im sure, but I marked that down in my book. There was nothing there but black water and American fire power. I dont think anything is more pointedly attributable to prisoners than that. In Alcatraz, each of the prisoners were kept in an individual windowless and concrete cell measuring 3 by 9 feet (0.9 by 2.7m) with a light bulb kept on around the clock, and locked in leg irons each night. So six torpedoes hit the water less than a half a block behind this destroyer but they all went bananas. Admiral Stockdale and his wife lived quietly on Coronado Island, off of San Diego, until his death at age 81. James Stockdale: Yes. You dont want big rockets from altitude going after them. [14], Early in Stockdale's captivity, his wife, Sybil Stockdale, organized The League of American Families of POWs and MIAs, with other wives of servicemen who were in similar circumstances. We were a good freshman football team. The clouds were getting lower and it was ominous. That was all there was. She probably wrote 50 and I got six, and I probably wrote 20 and she got two or something like that. Stockdale opened the debate by saying, "Who am I? But, a lot of high ranking officers doubted that in my company because of the need for them. Stockdale was born in Illinois and studied at Monmouth College there before gaining a place at the Naval Academy at Annapolis. And then its line and then well, rather than getting mixed up in the terminology, if I wanted to write if I wanted to say C start a letter with C I would go dom-dom-dom-dom. That night was not like any other night except some of the thoughts and some of the mental state. You wouldnt think I had a future if you saw me. I cant give you the language exactly but the point of it was, For goodness sake we have no positive indication that anything happened out here tonight, so let us at least hope we get verification before we take action. I said, I agree with him entirely. Well, everybody kind of got giddy because we thought we were going to be in a war about two hours ago and now we see its just a stupid screw-up. Soon after graduating in 1946, Stockdale reported to Pensacola for flight training. The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. As far as I know thats true. The four F-8 pilots reported scoring no hits with their Zuni rockets, but reported hits on all three torpedo boats with their 20 mm cannon. We asked for the same destroyer after graduation. We called it Alcatraz, ALCZ was the abbreviation. There were some features of the code that got in my hair. When this fellow came in with the Maddox, the North Vietnamese were really griped at him. This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. What role do you think your knowledge of that philosophy had in your survival? And then at one point my ten guys were kicked out of the camp system and we went to Alcatraz. And the prisoners knew it was me because of my limp. They told me, We think theyre going to put you in the mint pretty soon. And that was kind of the end of the line. It was insane that they didnt have one before. And then they didnt let me lie down. It never got above 1,000 feet even with the trajectory, and I was low and I was going right into this little town. I took 18 airplanes. A group of children come into view, walking along the long stone jetty. John Bradley. However, the Department of the Navy under the leadership of then-Secretary of the Navy John Warner took no action and retired these men "in the best interests of the Navy. James Stockdale: I just thought that that was the best thing that could happen to me, that I would be a hero in Vietnam. Whatever challenges we may face in the years to come, Americans and all freedom-loving peoples can fortify themselves with the example of Admiral James Bond Stockdale, an American hero for our time, and for all times. Collins called this the Stockdale Paradox.[21]. I put in for destroyers, and I was joined by my best friend in the Naval Academy, Bill Crowe. They have a sense of propriety against intruding in other peoples private parts. He had lost his generator. Tips in practicing emotional self-care. And yet he committed the one unpardonable sin in our culture: he was bad on television. Heroic Prisoner of War in North Vietnam Date of Birth December 23, 1923 Date of Death July 5, 2005 James Bond Stockdale was born and raised in Abingdon, Illinois. Adams, Lorraine (March 11, 1992). They didnt know what they were talking about and thats about as far as I could take it. He was 81. Johnson? cm. Look at your calendar. Shes in South Vietnam and thank God Ill soon be moved down there to be near her. But I noticed his eyes were flittering around and he kept looking at my leg. James Stockdale Popularity . As vice admiral, Stockdale was the president of The Citadel from 1979 to 1980. The cockpit is no wider than that, and its very noisy inside, but I looked right there and I saw that damn plane and I thought,Theres my Armageddon. And it was fireballs coming at me one after the other. When he was beating me up, he was being heard by about 200 Americans who were living in cells three deep all around that area, and it was dark. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. I asked people, What was it like? That was the only war in town. You want to get way down, right on the waters edge, go right up next to them and just give them 40 millimeter machine gun bullets and cut the whole thing up the side. Stockdale literally gambled with his life, and won. Big PT boats made in Norway, bought by the United States, supposedly being manned only by South Vietnamese. Courage under fire : testing Epictetus's doctrines in a laboratory of human behavior I James Bond Stockdale. Firstly, some historical cases are investigated, from a Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius to more recent instances from Vietnam and Iraq. I had an F-8 Marine squadron and an F-8 Navy squadron, and the exec of the Marine Corps, Major Ed Ruddy, came up to me one day and he said, You know, were doing all this bombing of the An Wa bridge and were losing aviators right and left. He said what I knew. Johnson announced to the American people that we are retaliating against outrageous activities of PT boats, and in fact some of these attacks are in progress. I had 300 miles to fly and I didnt even know. In 1959, the U.S. Navy sent Stockdale to Stanford University, where he earned a Master of Arts degree in international relations in 1962. In a 1994 HBO comedy special, Dennis Miller gave an impassioned defense of Stockdale's debate performance:[31]. For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty. Then it explains what happened, and it says, The highest traditions of the Naval Service were upheld.. He lettered in football, basketball and track, won a regional piano competition, and graduated second in his high school class. Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975--Personal narr a t i v e s . And he said, This country is in mourning. Its a brilliantly sunny, bitingly cold day in the glens of Antrim. 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