“How does an eleven-year-old boy understand and process that his beloved father has been shot down and is missing?” asked Sidney Bailey Stockdale, the second of four sons of Medal of Honor recipient Vice Admiral James Bond Stockdale, in his recently released memoir, A World Apart: Growing Up Stockdale During Vietnam. And how does his story and that of his heroic family fit into a real estate section on Memorial Day? There’s an historic home at the center of it.
“People don’t know that 23 U.S. POWs died while in prison in North Vietnam,” the author shared in an email. His family couldn’t be sure their beloved prisoner of war wouldn’t become the 24th fatality at any point during his brutal seven and a half year confinement in the infamous ‘Hanoi Hilton.’
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