| 词条 | Sybil Stockdale |
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Stockdale is credited with helping to better publicize the mistreatment of US prisoners by North Vietnam and for helping to improve American policies concerning the treatment and handling of POW families.[2][3] Stockdale is the recipient of the Navy Distinguished Public Service Award, the highest award given by the Department of the Navy to a citizen not employed by the Department.[4] She is the only wife of an active-duty officer ever to have been so honored.[4] Stockdale was also the co-author, along with her husband, of the book "In Love and War: the Story of a Family's Ordeal and Sacrifice During the Vietnam War".[2] Her husband, James Bond Stockdale, was a recipient of the Medal of Honor for bravery in war, and after his release at the end of the war, was eventually promoted to Vice Admiral and by the time of his death in 2005 was one of the United States' most honored and decorated military veterans in the post-WWII era. He was present at the August 4, 1964 Gulf of Tonkin Incident, spent 7-1/2 years under torture as a POW in North Vietnam, later became President of The Citadel, and eventually ran for Vice-President of the United States with Ross Perot heading the ticket. The Vietnam War yearsHusband's Capture in Vietnam / Pentagon "Keep quiet" PolicyWhen Sybil Stockdale's husband James was shot down in 1965 over North Vietnam, the US government had a "keep-quiet" policy, asking relatives of POWs to not raise a fuss about mistreatment of prisoners.[2][3] The official reason was not that the prisoners were not being tortured, but bad publicity might result in worse treatment.[2][3] Founding of the National League of FamiliesAfter a year of abiding by the government "keep-quiet" policy, Sybil found herself more and more disenchanted with the pretense that prisoners like her husband were treated fairly; James had been tortured, had inflicted serious wounds on himself to convince his captors they could not break or use him, and had spent years in solitary confinement.[3] In the summer of 1966, Sybil along with other members of a San Diego POW / MIA support group decided to go national, and formed the National League of Families of American Prisoners Missing in Southeast Asia.[3] Sybil was the first national coordinator.[3] Other support groups from east coast military communities later became part of the National League. Within a year she was sitting in the office of the Secretary Of Defense Melvin Laird discussing policy.[3] The Nixon Administration had ended the "keep quiet" policy and allegations of torture of US prisoners became fully public, with Sybil a forceful spokeswoman.[3] Memoir co-authored with husband JamesSybil Stockdale co-wrote a memoir with her husband James (who also wrote a number of books on his own). In Love and War: the Story of a Family's Ordeal and Sacrifice During the Vietnam War[2] was the most popular book written by either of the Stockdales. In the book James and Sybil Stockdale wrote alternating chapters describing their experiences of the Vietnam war, James wrote of his experiences as a POW, and Sybil wrote of her experiences as the wife of a POW, dealing with the stress and waiting at home and her journey cutting through Washington red tape and publicizing the plight of American POWs in Vietnam.[2] NBC adapted the book into a made-for-television movie that had 45 million viewers. Christening of USS Stockdale (DDG 106)On May 10, 2008, Sybil Stockdale attended a christening ceremony at Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine for the USS Stockdale, the 30th Arleigh Burke Class Destroyer, and the 56th ship of the class. Four Medal of Honor recipients and seven former prisoners of war attended the ceremony that marked a milestone in construction of the 9,200-ton ship named for her late husband. Personal lifeSybil Stockdale was born in New Haven, Connecticut.[5] She held an undergraduate degree from Mount Holyoke College, and a master's degree in education from Stanford University. Jim and Sybil Stockdale have four sons, Jim, Sid, Stanford and Taylor. She died at SHARP hospital in Coronado, California on October 10, 2015 from Parkinson's disease, at the age of 90.[6][7] Notes1. ^{{Cite news|url=http://www.coronadonewsca.com/obituaries/sybil-bailey-stockdale/article_9ef44014-72cd-11e5-beb5-2b8cdc48a86a.html|title=Obituaries: Sybil Bailey Stockdale |access-date=September 13, 2017}} 2. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 {{cite book|title=In Love and War: the Story of a Family's Ordeal and Sacrifice During the Vietnam War| first=James |last=Stockdale| authorlink=James Stockdale| isbn=0-87021-308-3| publisher=Naval Institute Press| origyear=1984| year=1990 |author2=Sybil Stockdale }} 3. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 {{Cite book | last = Grubb | first = Evelyn |author2=Carol Jose | title = You Are Not Forgotten: A Family's Quest for Truth and the Founding of the National League of Families | publisher = Vandamere Press | date = 1 September 2008 | location = St. Petersburg, FL | pages = | isbn = 978-0-918339-71-3}} 4. ^1 "An Indomitable Spirit", James Stockdale Biography, Museum of Living History, Academy of Achievement, Washington D.C., {{cite web |url=http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/sto0bio-1 |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2011-04-13 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110511124229/http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/sto0bio-1 |archivedate=2011-05-11 |df= }} 5. ^{{cite web|url=https://books.google.ca/books?id=qh5lffww-KsC&pg=PA1067&lpg=PA1067&sig=wBPXf14LfgQLJSeRgM6EPnrVvCw&ved=0CCQQ6AEwAmoVChMIh_DW0bvAyAIVRD6ICh3L2woF#v=onepage&q=Sybil%20Stockdale%201924|title=Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War, The: A Political, Social, and Military ...|work=google.ca|accessdate=October 15, 2015}} 6. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.wmcactionnews5.com/story/30252549/sybil-stockdale-who-fought-to-end-torture-of-pows-dies|title=Sybil Stockdale, who fought to end torture of POWs, dies|date=October 13, 2015|work=wmcactionnews5.com|accessdate=October 15, 2015|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20151022185425/http://www.wmcactionnews5.com/story/30252549/sybil-stockdale-who-fought-to-end-torture-of-pows-dies|archivedate=October 22, 2015|df=}} 7. ^[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/sybil-stockdale-military-wife-who-became-a-campaigner-against-the-torture-of-us-prisoners-of-war-a6703621.html Sybil Stockdale: Military wife who became a campaigner against the torture of US prisoners of war] External links{{Commons category|Sybil Stockdale}}
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