Sybil Stockdale, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Sybil Stockdale

American activist

Date of Birth: 25-Nov-1924

Place of Birth: New Haven, Connecticut, United States

Date of Death: 10-Oct-2015

Profession: author, human rights activist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius


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About Sybil Stockdale

  • Sybil Bailey Stockdale (November 25, 1924 – October 10, 2015) was the wife of a Vietnam War United States Navy pilot who became a prisoner of war (POW).
  • Sybil then became a co-founder and National Coordinator of the National League of Families, a nonprofit organization that worked on behalf of American Vietnam-era Missing in Action and Prisoner of War Families.
  • In her capacity as national coordinator for the League, she also served as its liaison to the White House and the Department of Defense.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.
  • 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.
  • She is the only wife of an active-duty officer ever to have been so honored.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.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-World War II 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.

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