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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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A World Apart: Growing Up Stockdale During Vietnam

A World Apart: Growing Up Stockdale During Vietnam

Stockdale, Sidney B.

Hardcover

Biographies GeneralGeneral ParentingVietnam War

Publisher Price: $34.95

ISBN10: 0578811502
ISBN13: 9780578811505
Publisher: Stockdale Press
Published: Oct 24 2023
Pages: 272
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.88 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

My memoir traces the events of my early life from 1962 to 1974 when my family found itself in the epicenter of the Vietnam War. When I was eleven years old my father, then Commander James Stockdale, was shot down and declared missing in action in September 1965. The emotional impact of that news devastated me, my mother Sybil Stockdale, and my three brothers, but we struggled to carry on somewhat normal lives. After seven months, in April 1966, two letters arrived in our Coronado mailbox from Dad, he was alive and a POW in Hao Lo prison, the Hanoi Hilton. My joy at the news of his survival was that of a young boy who didn't recognize the innuendos in his letters that made clear to my mother and US intelligence he was suffering in a brutal extortionist prison system where torture was frequent. My memoir describes my emotional strugglesas I wrestle with these new realities and at the same time presents the 'before and after' story using my parent's book, In Love and War (1984), The League of Wives by Heath Lee (2019), and my mother's diary that I first received in 2016, one year after she passed away.

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