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"Still waiting for the link to where I quoted Stockdale."

You did far worse than that.

In your comment #57, you wrote:
"Do you realize he was following the orders of Stockdale when he refused to leave early? He couldn’t have left against the orders of his superior officer...Are you aware that he did an interview and stated himself that he made an arrangement with the NVC to give them top secrets for preferential treatment?"

Again, here's what Admiral Stockdale really said about John McCain.

John McCain in the Crucible
New York Times
By JAMES B. STOCKDALE
November 26, 1999
[Excerpt:]

And I consider it blasphemy to smudge the straight-arrow prisoner-of-war record of a man who was near death when he arrived at Hoa Loa prison 1967: both arms broken, left leg broken, left shoulder broken by a civilian with a rifle butt.

He was eventually taken to the same rat-infested hospital room I had occupied two years earlier, and, like me, he had surgery on his leg. By then the Vietnamese had discovered that his father was the ranking admiral in the Pacific Fleet, and he received an offer that, as far as I know, was made to no other American prisoner: immediate release, no strings attached. He refused, thereby sentencing himself to four more years in a cell.