So I went down, went to bed just happy as a clam and went to sleep and the next thing I know Ive got a man in the room. Writer-director Colin McIvor adapts the true-ish story of how a handful of citizens came to the rescue of a baby elephant into an unlikely family film, one that will delight the kids (who see themselves portrayed as heroes) while leaving parents with a lot of explaining to do. It has all gelled together amazingly well and has given so many young people the confidence and self-belief to achieve things which, in the past, they may have drawn back from, says Burney Keatings. Admiral James B. Stockdale, USN Medal of Honor The worst thing that can happen is death, and that's not the worst thing in the world either. Rear Adm. Stockdale's valiant leadership and extraordinary courage in a hostile environment sustain and enhance the finest traditions of the U.S. I had about five within one real short period. I wasnt a bully, but I watched my dad for one. James Stockdale: I was just looking at a quotation in a book about hardship: Men can stand anything, if they just will not give up. I think thats one good way to define a man or a person. I did that because I concluded and I think Im right that theres a great connection between farm boys in Illinois and farm boys in rural Vietnam. August 5th, 1964, and I was the guy that did it. So from then on the life was never the same. I was always trying to get into a sideline of aviation. Stockdale's funeral service was held at the Naval Academy Chapel and he was buried at the United States Naval Academy Cemetery. Through it all, Stockdales captors held out the promise of better treatment if he would only admit that the United States was engaging in criminal behavior against the Vietnamese people, but Stockdale refused. A storm was making up. I remember soldiers in the streets and checkpoints along the roads. The course was designed by Stockdale and Professor Joseph Brennan, who continued to teach it after Stockdale retired from the Navy. We waited til the last moment. p . I looked in the Yellow Pages and found an acting school in Manchester offering two-hour courses for 20 a throw. [13] During the course of his captivity, due to torture, his leg was broken twice. A report will be written. Stockdale's decorations and awards include: Stockdale's official Medal of Honor citation reads: For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty while senior naval officer in the Prisoner of War camps of North Vietnam. You go 50 or 100 miles on and theres another one going on. Perot and Stockdale received 19 percent of the vote in the 1992 presidential election, one of the best showings by an independent ticket in U.S. electoral history, although they did not carry any states. There were probably about 15 airplanes that were going out to shoot rockets at a towed spar that the ship would be towing. [39], The Admiral James & Sybil Stockdale Arena at South Kent School was named after Stockdale and his wife in April 2014.[40]. In deference to his previous service, the navy kept him on active duty, steadily promoting him over the next few years before he retired as a vice admiral on September 1, 1979. I asked people, What was it like? Now every night on a carrier if youre flying fighters you have two planes on the catapults if youre in a dangerous area, ready to launch in an instants notice. Capricorn War Hero #22. His primary focus was ancient Stoicism and the Roman slave-turned-philosopher Epictetus, whose lessons captured in The Enchiridion Stockdale credited with providing him strength during his ordeals as a prisoner in the Hanoi Hilton. He was President of the Naval War College from October 1977 until he retired from the Navy in 1979. And the voice on the ship said that the Maddox is being chased by four PT boats at 300 plus miles north of here so clean up and get up there and help them out. And he said, This country is in mourning. James Stockdale Is A Member Of . This means that we may include adverts from us and third parties based on our knowledge of you. So you get to know this code and then you had to have operating signals. Pump em up, you know? So that was what we were living with. "George Coker for Beach Schools", letter to, Collins, Jim (date unknown). They would go up and they would have target areas that they would shellac in the middle of the night and then they would head back down. James Stockdale: I dont know. He was in his 30s, and he was white collar by that time, but he went to his boss, Jim Simpson, and said, Jim, Id like to join the Navy. Jim said, Go ahead. I starred in a short film called Heres Looking at You, Kid in 2018 and the director for that was Michael Lennox who also directs Derry Girls, he said. So six torpedoes hit the water less than a half a block behind this destroyer but they all went bananas. "[22] Both Miller and Wilber received letters of censure. Then I was lugged through the underbrush in kind of a seated position with guys on either side of me. Decorated U.S. Navy officer and Vietnam War hero who was Ross Perot's presidential running mate in 1992. Its all illegal, but I knew on a destroyer those black shoes get itchy if they see planes flying by with lights on them. So President Johnson decided not to execute the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution after that first incident. Here, McIvor has taken considerable liberties with history. Everything was caution. James Stockdale: God bless you, Jim Stockdale. Six men have been arrested as part of the investigation so far. Stockdale filed charges against two other officers (Marine Corps Lieutenant Colonel Edison W. Miller and Navy Captain Walter E. "Gene" Wilber) who, he felt, had given aid and comfort to the enemy. He was subsequently discovered and revived by the North Vietnamese who, convinced of his indomitable spirit, abated in their employment of excessive harassment and torture toward all of the prisoners of war.. The first night of my command cruise. War Hero. We were still in Hoa Lo prison before we were exiled and there were a lot of cell blocks. Your job will be waiting for you. Thats when he became familiar with cities and the way people behave in them. This was an easy day. These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously. We can declare war now because theyve violated common international law. And then next morning LBJ had a meeting in his office and he said, Gentlemen, Ive been thinking this over and I think that Im not going to execute the Tonkin Gulf Resolution at this time because this could have been the result of a hare-brained local area commander. And then people hed also talked to, and even out of the newspapers I got this he said, You know, Im running for President for a second term against Barry Goldwater and if I do something that seems rash to the Americans they will say, What the hell is the difference between Barry Goldwater and L.B. Yes, there have been difficult days, but you have to believe in your vision, take the knocks and never lose sight of the bigger picture. And Christmas would come, and Christmas would go. It was the Maddox, a single ship that was going up the coast. Now thats the kind of stuff you have to work with all the time, but even with all that, I could hear boom, boom, boom, boom. Im going to be back leading six A-4s in flak suppression. You want to get way down, right on the waters edge, go right up next to them and just give them 40 millimeter machine gun bullets and cut the whole thing up the side. In reality, a zoo employee named Denise Austin later dubbed the elephant angel took it upon herself to care for the young pachyderm, freeing it from its enclosure after work and walking it the few blocks to her nearby home, where it slept in her high-walled private yard, before returning it to the zoo each morning. I didnt put it in my orders as such. Almost more than anything else because there half of the prison crowd knew that I was out there getting beat up. First Name James. We got out there and this guy took a cat shot, took off from the starboard catapult, and all his lights went out going down the track. The award was first made in 1981. Jacob was still alive but suffering from a self . Later that afternoon, I was just lying down on my roll, assuming that the day was over, and this guy named Bug, who was a snotty officer, he said, Get on your feet! I watched all the seasons to date and then the new one as well and I just really enjoy the comedy in it as well as learning about the history and the time period its set in. Biography Mini Bio (1) James Stockdale is known for Here's Looking at You, Kid (2018), Derry Girls (2018) and Zoo (2017). I dont know, because I didnt have it up there well enough. I was in there and they were about at their wits end. And yet he committed the one unpardonable sin in our culture: he was bad on television. In all that makes a total of around 14,000, with everyone playing their part in a project which has captured the hearts of so many people., The world premiere of A Christmas Star will be on November 4th, 2015, in Belfast. In the meantime, I had had sense enough to put it in the crotch of my pants. Big PT boats made in Norway, bought by the United States, supposedly being manned only by South Vietnamese. If news or social media make you feel worse, take a break. The spirit of friendship that has prevailed has been truly heart-warming. The spectacular final scene of the movie was the first to be shot, in front of 12,500 people at the switching on of the Christmas lights outside Belfast City Hall. I made him so proud that I just couldnt let him down. That wasnt the dominant thing that was going on, but as I thought back over it this is whats behind it. My dad would always be present at football practice. Rob James-Collier, who was born in Salford, in England, is perfectly cast as Pat, given his more familiar on-screen persona as Thomas, the treacherous footman in. I think he looked through a peephole and saw me in that pool of blood in front of my chair. That was all there was. They werent sure the war was going to last, but it came down from on high, Pull no punches.. That was a big screw-up. We were right across the walk from their Pentagon, but we were the only Americans in there and there were only 11 of us. Drawing strength from principles of stoic philosophy, Stockdale heroically resisted. And he came alive. Also learn how He earned most of Jim Stockdale networth? In Heartbreak Hotel a lot of prisoners only had access to this showerhead that was in a regular cell with two cement seats or beds. We use cookies on our website to give you the most relevant experience by remembering your preferences and repeat visits. Sybil Stockdale personally made these demands known at the Paris Peace Talks. It's good to be informed, but it's also OK to cut back if it's making things harder. James Stockdale: We had some smart guys that were shot down ahead of me. The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category "Functional". James Stockdale: A lot happened before that, it wasnt just happenstance. James Stockdale: Yes. The officers were nasty, but they couldnt figure out what to say. These cookies track visitors across websites and collect information to provide customized ads. We were finally putting a family back together.. A luxury suite at the Loews Annapolis Hotel, where Perot announced his candidacy, was named in Stockdale's honor. Whatever challenges we may face in the years to come, Americans and all freedom-loving peoples can fortify themselves with the example of Admiral James Bond Stockdale, an American hero for our time, and for all times. Theyd have to go to Japan or make some kind of arrangement. I want you to lead the most important strike, the one they call the number one, and that is the POL storage. POL is petroleum, oils and lubricants. The plan at the minute is probably to go into Law but if the acting were to pick up I probably would just do that full-time. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Analytics". To be honest its what I enjoy doing the most, its just harder to consistently be on the screen. But the role of Pat's son Junior, who was raised in the US, could have been written for him. I was in leg irons in a bath stall and I had been in there for several days and that night a guard came in, unlocked the leg irons, grabbed my arm, took me around the corner into an open area and beat the hell out of me. Though his captors held his body prisoner, their relentless attempts to break his spirit never succeeded. I felt strongly that this could be a transformational project for a lot of people, and nothing was going to put me off. Were being sighted.. "It has been brilliant to develop Thomas," he says. Their leader is a dark-haired girl in a red duffel coat; beside her is a tiny chap in a Davy Crockett hat. All that action we were involved in there had to do with the movement of the Pathet Lao who were threatening to take over the Plain of Jars, which was quite a rich farming country. We got the A-4s to tag the F-8s and we had a search plane that we sent ahead to give us a weather report when we got to the coast. He was going to try and remake the knee. How dare you? I just got down in the position for the ropes and he said, You have no right to take the ropes. I knew I was getting him screwed up. Bob Shoemaker was one of them and Smitty Harris was another one. Last year was its first time in London, and there is now a Cinemagic festival in Castres, in southern France. Pi Ga, my torture guard, was always there to take me wherever they wanted. It was the quarterback sack of the century. They tore off his clothes and beat him mercilessly. When he was beating me up, he was being heard by about 200 Americans who were living in cells three deep all around that area, and it was dark. This was 1943 so a lot of fighting had gone on and he was going back to be a Washington bureaucrat for a while and then back into the war. So sometimes when you submitted you gave them information, but it was never what they wanted, was it? I learned how to damage a PT boat. So I was alone, and then there were two A-4s behind me, and later in the night some more planes came down there. [36][37], Stockdale Center, the student center at Monmouth College in Monmouth, Illinois, which he attended prior to transferring to the Naval Academy, was dedicated in his honor in 1989. Its kind of the student union, so Im certainly part of their alumni. It was something really serious. James added he was as surprised as anyone to get the call about making an appearance in the series. First of all, I think McNamara and (President) Johnson and that administration was stupid about warfare. His courage was an inspiration to his fellow POWs, with whom he communicated in an ingenious code, maintaining unit cohesion and morale. James Bond Stockdale (December 23, 1923 - July 5, 2005) was a United States Navy vice admiral and one of the most-highly decorated officers in the history of the U.S. Navy. Im CAG Stockdale, USS Oriskany. Joseph Gerard Brennan, FOUNDATIONS OF MORAL OBLIGATION: The Stockdale Course, This page was last edited on 26 February 2023, at 21:55. I chased those bullets as they went along and went right down on the water and there was nothing there, because you could see the Tonkin Gulf has different physical characteristics. Deans Denise Seachrist and Bradley Bielski issued. They said, Weve got to have a code. One day a man that was near them, Larry Gorrino, was taken away, and they didnt know where he was. "[9], The next morning, on August 5, 1964, President Johnson ordered bombing raids on North Vietnamese military targets which he announced were retaliation for the alleged incident of August 4. They would send these counterculture guys over to pick up the people that applied for the amnesty. In 2022, James got a chance to play Tomas in 'Derry Girls'. Every time a plane went into Laos, youd have to check and that all went back to Washington. At Patuxent, Stockdale was a standout. It was like Indian tribes. They would see a couple of American soldiers, bring them in and they would have a campfire and theyd say, What do we do? But when we looked at the we knew now this took about 45 minutes to go through all this and get all that blood stopped. Thats the kind of eccentric animal hoarder Wilton plays here: As if tending a personal zoo from her home, Austin keeps rabbits in her kitchen and hedgehogs in the side table, while feed and fecal matter spill from every conceivable corner of her overstuffed menagerie. In January 1954, he was accepted into the United States Naval Test Pilot School at the Naval Air Station Patuxent River base in Southern Maryland, and he completed his training in July 1954. He had lost his generator. Hes all alone, and hes got certain procedures that he alone has invented to live in that predicament and he just doesnt want to get into your skin. So I think if I had started using the word Epictetus or stoicism it would have been bad for the camp because you cant explain it through the wall. As the torpedo boats turned for their North Vietnamese coastline, four F-8 Crusader fighter aircraft from USSTiconderoga(CV-14) arrived, and immediately attacked the retreating torpedo boats. Five hundred-pound bombs were not going to phase that thing. It was secret and stayed secret. I opened. The Vice Admiral James Bond Stockdale Award for Inspirational Leadership is a United States Navy award established in 1980 by United States Secretary of the Navy Edward Hidalgo to honor the inspirational leadership of Stockdale. However, the Department of the Navy under the leadership of then-Secretary of the Navy John Warner took no action and retired these men "in the best interests of the Navy. Here come the big PT boats. They would give me the ropes three times a week. I gave them a problem like theyd never had before and they solved it by backing off. Every time I left the room I would be on a stretcher cart all covered with blankets. He deliberately inflicted a near-mortal wound to his person in order to convince his captors of his willingness to give up his life rather than capitulate. In July 2008, a statue of him was erected in front of Luce Hall at the U.S. One beautifully orchestrated air-raid scene featuring iconic shots that would be right at home in The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp or Atonement may be a bit intense for younger audiences, as is the death of a key character, although as long as the elephant survives, the kids should be OK. Established in 1989, Cinemagic is the largest film event of its kind in Ireland and Britain, attracting more than 35,000 young people annually. S is dom-dom-dom-dom-dom-dom and so forth. Stockdale suffered a broken leg and paralyzed arm before a military policeman took him into custody. She is the only wife of an active-duty officer ever to be so honored. We were doing a lot of tactical bombing raids that were doing good. I got along all right, and he went with me. They lugged me out to a literally lugged because they didnt have a stretcher or anything I was in the grass and Id passed out. However, his unfocused style for the rest of the debate (including asking the moderator to repeat one question because he didn't have his hearing aid turned on) made him appear confused and almost disoriented. There he tutored the U.S. Marine Corps aviator John Glenn in mathematics and physics. Now Im just angry: Vincent Cassel on being hated, Brexit and Andrew Tate, Screen Actors Guild awards 2023: Banshees of Inisherin loses out on major prizes, Sean Quinns former Dublin pub sold for 3.75m, Eleanor Catton on Jacinda Arderns pretty huge betrayal of young people in New Zealand, Baby died after traumatic delivery into toilet at Rotunda, inquest hears, Sharp decrease in number of asylum seekers arriving in Ireland recorded, Jury finds against solicitor who claimed false imprisonment on cruise ship after suicide comment, NIs new Brexit deal may send more lorry traffic back to ports in Republic, says Rosslare port chief, Irish unemployment falls to new post-crash low of 4.3%, Will Katie get her homecoming? And then its line and then well, rather than getting mixed up in the terminology, if I wanted to write if I wanted to say C start a letter with C I would go dom-dom-dom-dom. I never went downtown. I said, God, its black as hell and he wont even be able to see his instrument panel. They had to land him because he just had this little electricity that was giving him light and there are a lot of switches youve got to have to get your bombs where you want them. You cannot accept a favor. I was all alone and I went up in the ready room and there were all, three guys, four guys, sitting there kind of you know what kind of grins they had on their face and they said, Whats going on out there? I said, Yeah, thats what I want to know. I said, I got so low I had salt water on my windshield. They were A-4s and F-8s. He came back to the peephole and I ducked down, just showing him my behind, which is all he could see because I was stooped over. James Stockdale: 1954. I was given a lot of times in the ropes in Room 18, which is the main torture chamber of Hoe Lo prison. It seemed to work. 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