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Posted By: howard

I wouldn't call Admiral Stockdale "loopy". He was badly miscast and clearly uncomfortable as a VP candidate but otherwise he conducted himself w/honor and dignity his entire life. If he was, in fact, loopy, perhaps it was from beating his face against walls and lacerating his own skull so that his North Vietnamese captors could not use him in propaganda films. When he was released after seven years he was in even worse physical condition than john McCain and was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor.

Barry, I know you didn't mean anything disrespectful by your comment, I just think it's a shame that Stockdale is chiefly remembered for that brief period of his life.