12 Facts About Sybil Stockdale

Sybil Elizabeth Stockdale was an American campaigner for families of Americans missing in South East Asia.

Sybil Stockdale was the wife of Vietnam War United States Navy pilot James Stockdale who became a prisoner of war.

Sybil Stockdale is credited with helping to publicize the mistreatment of US prisoners by North Vietnam and for helping to improve American policies concerning the treatment and handling of POW families.

Sybil Stockdale is the recipient of the Navy Distinguished Public Service Award, the highest award given by the Department of the Navy to a citizen not employed by the Department.

Sybil Stockdale is the only wife of an active-duty officer ever to have been so honored.

Sybil Stockdale's husband, James Stockdale, was a recipient of the Medal of Honor for bravery in war, and after his release at the end of the war, was eventually promoted to vice admiral and by the time of his death in 2005 was one of the United States' most honored and decorated military veterans in the post-World War II era.

Sybil Stockdale was present at the August 4,1964 Gulf of Tonkin Incident, spent 7.

Sybil Stockdale held an undergraduate degree from Mount Holyoke College, and a master's degree in education from Stanford University.

Jim and Sybil Stockdale had four sons: Jim, Sid, Stanford and Taylor.

Sybil Stockdale died at SHARP Hospital in Coronado, California on October 10,2015, from Parkinson's disease, at the age of 90.

Sybil Stockdale co-wrote a memoir with her husband James.

James wrote of his experiences as a POW, and Sybil Stockdale wrote of her experiences as the wife of a POW, dealing with the stress and waiting at home and her journey cutting through Washington red tape and publicizing the plight of American POWs in Vietnam.