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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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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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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.
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In Courage Under Fire James Stockdale tells the story of how he used principles from stoic philosophy to survive torture as a prisoner of war in Vietnam.
Oct 30, 2013 · Courage Under Fire – by James Bond Stockdale – Testing Epictetus’s Doctrines in a Laboratory of Human Behavior, is a short autobiography of real courage and emotional recovery of a man who had many times taken the ropes and spent over four years in solitary confinement.
Jun 4, 2020 · 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: Let others practice lawsuits, others study problems, others syllogisms; here you practice how to die, how to be enchained, how to be racked, how to be exiled.
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Sep 1, 2013 · When physical disability from combat wounds brought about Jim Stockdale's early retirement from military life, he had the distinction of being the only three-star officer in the history...
