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Georgia farm boy Will Stockdale is about to bust with pride.
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Captain Stockdale was born in Abingdon, Illinois in 1923.
Stockdale, James B. 1990
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While imprisoned, Stockdale is credited with organizing a set of rules to govern the behavior of fellow prisoners of war and for helping to develop a code for prisoners to communicate with each other that included tapping on cell walls.
Stockdale, James B. 1990
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B. Stockdale from the aircraft carrier USS TICONDEROGA, also took part in the skirmish.
Stockdale, James B. 1990
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Martin Stockdale e-mailed me a cover which I haven’t posted before – from the Berkley edition of the Adventures of the Stainless Steel Rat published in August 1978.
Stainless Steel Art (33) « Official Harry Harrison News Blog 2009
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Martin Stockdale e-mailed me a cover which I haven’t posted before – from the Berkley edition of the Adventures of the Stainless Steel Rat published in August 1978.
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So a headline in The Washington Times called Stockdale a loser, and conservative columnists denigrated him as “geezerish,” “lame” and “the big loser.”
Wes Clark Is Right 2008
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But the strange use of a rhetorical question became known as the "Stockdale Moment."
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Indeed, the only oppressive state prosecution instituted during the first eight years of his administration was that of Stockdale, which is to be attributed not to the government, but to the chiefs of the opposition.
Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 3 Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay 1829
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In his remarks during the award ceremony, Adm. Gary Roughead, chief of naval operations, called Stockdale "an icon in our Navy," according to the Navy Times.
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