These are the words I will always remember Vice Admiral James Stockdale, USN (Ret.) by. He died today at the age of 81, from Alzheimer’s Disease.
Stockdale was the highest-ranking POW held by the North Vietnamese and was imprisoned for over seven years. He got the crap beaten out of him for most of that time, until one day, he cut his own wrists to show his captors that Americans wouldn’t buckle under the interrogation! He woke up in a pool of his own blood. Shortly afterward, the NVA stopped torturing the prisoners under his command.
And then in 1992, Ross Perot asked him to be his running mate. When it came time for the Vice-Presidential debate, Pee-rot told Stockdale that he had accepted the invitation for him, but forgot to tell the retired admiral about it until just two days were left to prepare! Hence, the saying. While most Americans slammed him for his lack of preparation, I didn’t because he came without the bulls**t baggage most politicians carry around with them. I admired him, and yet at the same time I felt sorry for him, for having to put up with Quayle and Gore hammering away at each other.
Still, you made your point. Thanks, Admiral Stockdale!

The Hanoi Hilton

Very good! You get a gold star for the day!

Thank you Macker.  I’m so happy!  My very own Gold Star.  Maybe I should do what you do, and start sleeping with a Stephen Hawkin’s book under my pillow! LOL

Actually, I don’t need to. I listen to him from time to time though!