I have to disagree.
Adm. Stockdale was a multi-year POW, and that man is an American Hero if there ever was one.
See my Freep Page-he is one of mine.
I suspect I probably took your post differently than perhaps you meant it!
the good sdmiral was not on my list.
there are many who, also, are not on my list.
‘songbird’ is on my list, not only for his erformance as POW, but for his loving record of all the bills to help veterans, that he made sure to defeat.