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Dec 1, 1993 · Short Summary: As a fighter pilot during the Vietnam War, James Stockdale shot down, captured, and imprisoned for eight brutal years. He used the wisdom of stoicism to survive and grow stronger in prison.
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Jun 4, 2020 · James Stockdale's Courage Under Fire. Caleb Ontiveros. 4 Jun 2020 • 2 min read. Admiral James Stockdale was one of the great American Stoics. Courage Under Fire chronicles his internment as a prisoner of war and his use of Epictetus. Here's a characteristic sample of one of Epictetus's lines:
Rhinelander explained that its author, Epictetus, was a very unusual man of intelligence and sensitivity, who gleaned wisdom rather than bitterness from his early firsthand exposure to extreme cruelty and firsthand observations of the abuse of power and self-indulgent debauchery.
Nov 1, 2021 · Appalled by the loss of American life on “Hamburger Hill,” a remote mountain near the Laotian border in northern South Vietnam, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts took the floor of the U.S. Senate in May 1969 to condemn the 101st Airborne Division’s bloody 10-day battle.
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Sep 1, 2013 · Courage Under Fire. : When physical disability from combat wounds brought about Jim Stockdale's early retirement from military life, he had the distinction of being the...
Feb 1, 2020 · Courage Under Fire. Stockdale tells how he discovered Stoicism, midway through his life, as a “gray-haired” thirty-eight year old naval pilot in graduate school at Stanford University.
COURAGE UNDER FIRE. ry of Human BehaviorJames Bond Stockdalecame to the philosophic life as a thirt y - e i g h t - y e a r-old naval pi. ot in grad school at Stanford University. I had been in the navy for twenty. years and scarcely ever out of a cockpit. In 1962, I began my second year of studying.
