James B. Stockdale was one of the highly revered Vice admiral in the history of United States Navy. He set a outstanding instance and gained many awards for his high levels of spirit, braveness and endurance. He was additionally Vice Presidential candidate in 1992.
James Stockdale was prisoner of struggle from September 9, 1965 to February 12, 1973 in Vietnam Battle. Stockdale credited that his stoic nature helped him to survive as a Prisoner of War.
Jim Collins included Stockdale philosophy as Stockdale Paradox in his renowned guide ‘Good to Nice’ as "confronting the brutal fact of the state of affairs, yet at the same time, by no means surrender hope."
When interviewed by Jim Collins about Vietnamese Prisoner of Conflict (POW) camp, Stockdale mentioned "I by no means misplaced faith ultimately of the story, I by no means doubted not only that I might get out, but additionally that I might prevail in the end and turn the experience into the defining occasion of my life, which, looking back, I would not commerce."
And when requested about who did not make it out, Stockdale replied, "Oh, that’s easy, the optimists. Oh, they have been the ones who said, 'We're going to be out by Christmas.' And Christmas would come, and Christmas would go. Then they'd say, 'We'll be out by Easter.' And Easter would come, and Easter would go. And then Thanksgiving, after which it might be Christmas once more. And so they died of a damaged heart."
Stockdale was born in Abingdon, Illinois in 1923. He graduated from Naval Academy in 1947 and joined Naval air station Pensacola, Florida for flight training. He obtained masters in Worldwide relations and Marxist theory from Stanford College and later preferred to be a fighter pilot. He rose by way of ranks rapidly and reached highest place as a fighter squadron commander.
Stockdale was held as Prisoner of War in 1965 in North Vietnam while working on a mission in Vietnam Conflict. There he was despatched to one of the crucial infamous Hao Lo jail the place he was brutally tortured bodily and mentally. In the seven years where he was stored captive as prisoner of warfare, despite severely overwhelmed, malnourished, asphyxiated, and spent few years in total darkish room, he never succumbed to the North Vietnam captors.
During his seven years as POW, he resisted to cooperate with the captors, even when he was placed in solitary confinement. He was locked with leg irons in a bath stall, crushed, and whipped. He resisted them utilizing him for propaganda by hurting himself relentlessly. When Stockdale came to know that he was to be paraded in public before foreign journalists by captors, he slashed his scalp with a razor to disfigure himself, in order that the captors do not take him and use him for propaganda. When they put a hat, he had overwhelmed his face with a stool to be swollen past recognition. When captors told him that different POWs are dying under torture, he slit his wrists to show that he preferred loss of life relatively to capitulate.
His uncanny dedication is broadly respected. He obtained ‘Medal of Honor’ in 1976, the very best military ornament awarded by the US authorities together with 26 other personal fight decorations.
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