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http://www.military.com/daily-news/2015/10/14/sybil-stockdale-who-fought-end-torture-pows-dies.html?ESRC=army-a_151021.nl
While she was not a military hero, she was nevertheless a hero in my mind for helping to expose the abuses American Prisoners of War faced in North Vietnam. She deserves to be honored and remembered as much as her husband, Vice Admiral James Bond Stockdale. Unfortunately most Americans will not read of her passing but a commie actress who posed with North Vietnamese anti aircraft guns and who should have been tried for treason still gets plenty of press.
My sympathies to her surviving family and friends.
While she was not a military hero, she was nevertheless a hero in my mind for helping to expose the abuses American Prisoners of War faced in North Vietnam. She deserves to be honored and remembered as much as her husband, Vice Admiral James Bond Stockdale. Unfortunately most Americans will not read of her passing but a commie actress who posed with North Vietnamese anti aircraft guns and who should have been tried for treason still gets plenty of press.
My sympathies to her surviving family and friends.
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"Hero" is so overused today that the word has all but lost it's meaning. We're left to focus on "celebrities"; those who earn celebrity through athletic prowess, appearance in films and TV, politics, or for now apparent reason (think Kardahian). Their comings and goings as well as their passings absorb the attention of those who work in industries that share a symbiotic relationship with celebrities (journalists and talking heads). Only occasionally do real heroes (who actually deserve celebrity status) rise to our consciousness, but they too quickly fall by the wayside unless they do and say absurd things that fit the popular narrative (progressive socialism). So we must satisfy ourselves that real heroes are noticed if only by us, the fans who really count for something.
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SFC William Farrell
Well said CPT Jack Durish. Your last sentence says it perfectly why I will never forget and when I do forget it will be because I too shall have passed and no one but my immediate family will notice nor care.
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Wife to ADM James Stockdale. POW in Vietnam for 7 years; awarded the MOH. Very strong woman from one of America's strongest families. Respect.
http://www.onenewspage.com/n/US/7559xwrh5/Sybil-Stockdale-POWs-advocate-90.htm
http://www.onenewspage.com/n/US/7559xwrh5/Sybil-Stockdale-POWs-advocate-90.htm
Sybil B. Stockdale | POWs' advocate, 90
Sybil B. Stockdale | POWs' advocate, 90 • Sybil Bailey Stockdale, 90, a Navy wife who fought to end the torture of U.S. prisoners of war in Vietnam, has died. • US • One News Page: Thursday, 15 October 2015
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