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[Justin Bailey]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-5121264,00.html

Stockdale was taken to Hoa Lo Prison, known as the ``Hanoi Hilton.'' His shoulders were wrenched from their sockets, his leg had been shattered by angry villagers and a torturer, and his back was broken. But he refused to capitulate.

Rather than allow himself to be used in a propaganda film, Stockdale smashed his face with a mahogany stool.

``My only hope was to disfigure myself,'' Stockdale wrote in his 1984 autobiography ``In Love and War.'' The ploy worked, but he spent the next two years in leg irons.

After Ho Chi Minh's death, he broke a glass pane in an interrogation room and slashed his wrists until he passed out in his own blood. After that, captors relented in their harsh treatment of him and his fellow prisoners.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Stockdale

He was held as a prisoner of war in the Hoa Lo prison for the next seven years. Locked in leg irons in a bath stall, he was routinely tortured and beaten. When told by his captors that he was to be paraded in public, Stockdale slit his scalp with a razor to purposely disfigure himself so that his captors could not use him as propaganda. When Stockdale heard that other prisoners were dying under the torture, he slit his wrists and told them that he preferred death to submission.

Stockdale was released as a prisoner of war in 1973. He received the Medal of Honor in 1976.

Holy shit. This guy was the real deal.

 

[Yamauchi]

I like this guy's style.

 

[themadcowtipper]

Damn I thought the guy who cut off his own arm that was trapped under a boulder raised the "tuff mother " Bar, but apparently the bar had already been risen, and yet to be met by anyother man...

 

[jett]

...motherfuck.

 

[Excess Poo Flakes]

Should have voted for Perot!

 

[IntestineBoy]

HAL BRUNO: Admiral Stockdale, your opening statement, please, sir?

ADMIRAL STOCKDALE: Who am I? Why am I here?

Bad-ass dude... bat shit insane too.

 

[AB 101]

Ping-pong

match



Damn, the guy went thru some serious shit.

 

[Ned Flanders]

This guys not a hero, he's a masochist.

 

[Phoenix]

Wow. He should have run for office - would have made Bush and Kerry look like kids playing with GI Joe dolls.

Would be a bit much if this behavior continued while he was in office though. "President Stockdale was rushed to the hospital this morning, having followed up on his promise to slit his wrists until all his nominees got an up or down vote"

 

[HokieJoe]

Should have voted for Perot!

I did.

 

[BigGreenMat]

Wow. He should have run for office - would have made Bush and Kerry look like kids playing with GI Joe dolls.

Would be a bit much if this behavior continued while he was in office though. "President Stockdale was rushed to the hospital this morning, having followed up on his promise to slit his wrists until all his nominees got an up or down vote"

Uh remember when McCain ran against Bush? McCain was a PoW and went through similar trials, but we all see what Bush and his cronies did to his heroism.

 

[Phoenix]

Uh remember when McCain ran against Bush? McCain was a PoW and went through similar trials, but we all see what Bush and his cronies did to his heroism.

Don't seem to recall McCain slashing his wrists, disfiguring his body, or bashing his head in. But perhaps google has failed me in this instance.

 

[miyuru]

Goddamn...that's insane.