Sid Stockdale's father, Admiral James Stockdale, was shot down during a bombing mission over Vietnam in 1965. Stockdale, then a Naval Aviator, would spend nearly eight years in the infamous "Hanoi Hilton" prison, suffering torture and deprivation. He was the highest-ranking Navy officer POW in Vietnam. James Stockdale's wife, Sybil Stockdale, would found the League of Wives, which became the National League of Families of American Prisoners and Missing in Southeast Asia. The League became a nati