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4 GRIT August 27, 1978Adm. Stockdale When He Took Command of the Nava! War CollegeAMERICANS ON MOVE UPHOLDContinued From pait i “Many persons also are movingEx-Prisoner of VietnameseNow Heads War Collegemental gymnastics, plans, andBoth were graduated from Annapolis in 1947. And both went on to become presidents.One, President Jimmy Carter, gets his name in the headlines more often. The other, Adm. James Bond Stockdale, is the less-well-known president of the Naval War College in Newport, R.I..In September, 1965, Stockdale's fighter-bomber was forced down by the communists near the Thah Hoa Bridge in North Vietnam. When he reached the ground, Stockdale’s shoulder was broken and his kneecap was permanently shattered, leaving him with a.deformed leg.POW IVi YearsThen, for the next TVs years, Stockdale spent his life in a prisoner-of-war camp.“After the first week or two, you do think you're going crazy, butafter a yeaj or twOj with all theprayers, you hardly have enough time, he said.You go to bed disappointed that you didn’t have more time. Solitude is a good way to live afterPacific fleet and then a director for the Pentagon's chief of naval operations. And last October, he became president of the Naval War College.has offered a course called Foundations of Moral Obligation at the college.Although he is considered a “firm leader, Stockdale said he doesn’t pli to implement any radical changes at the school. He does hope, however, to offer more electives.institutions.What kind of man would he like to see educated?“It is not so much a man who stares off into space when someone breaks his arm as a man whoStockdale has already put his personal stamp on the institution has mental discipline and careful-by emphasizing moral standards, ly programs his energies and tal-“You can't teach moral values, ents towards realistic goals and directly, but that doein’t mean it's pursuit of worthy aims,” he said, a waste of time to reflect on moral He’s not a brute. He’s a self-dis-excellence. said Stockdale, who ciplined scholar.you get used to itFreed in 1973It wasn't until February, 1973, -• Stockdale said he likes educa-that Stockdale was freed in one of tion. He said he expects to write the prisoner-of-war exchanges, and lecture in military retirement Quickly returning to active duty, and contribute “to the betterment he became a commander of the of the navy and its educational
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Williamsport Sunday Grit National Edition
Williamsport, Pennsylvania, US
Sun, Aug 27, 1978
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