Chapter Five: A Reluctant Sorority
1. Davis, Long Road Home, 42–43.
2. “The National League of Families of American Prisoners of War and Missing in Action in Southeast Asia,” paper by unidentified author, n.d., 14–15, JSSP.
3. Michael J. Allen, Until the Last Man Comes Home: POWs, MIAs and the Unending Vietnam War (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009), 20.
4. Ibid., 18–19.
5. Sallie Stratton, in conversation with the author, September 7, 2017.
6. Sybil Stockdale, oral history interview with Steven L. Smith, June 16, 2000, 4, in Smith, “Reluctant Sorority.”
7. Rochester and Kiley, Honor Bound, 202, 206; Davis, Long Road Home, 77, 80–84.
8. Davis, Long Road Home, 84.
9. Stockdale and Stockdale, In Love and War, 140.
10. Sybil Stockdale, “Reflections of a POW Wife” speech, 5–6, JSSP; Stockdale and Stockdale, In Love and War, 141.
11. Sybil Stockdale diary, n.d., 60, box 11, folder 22, SBSP.
12. Rudy Abramson, Spanning the Century: The Life of W. Averell Harriman, 1891–1986 (New York: William Morrow, 1992), 51–52.
13. Lynne Olson, Citizens of London: The Americans Who Stood with Britain in Its Darkest, Finest Hour (New York: Random House, 2010), 239–43, 389–90.
14. Abramson, Spanning the Century, 603.
15. Olson, Citizens of London, 58.
16. Ibid., 54.
17. Stockdale and Stockdale, In Love and War, 141.
18. Sybil Stockdale diary, n.d., 61, box 11, folder 22, SBSP.
19. Ibid.; Stockdale and Stockdale, In Love and War, 141–43.
20. Sybil Stockdale diary, n.d., 60, box 11, folder 22, SBSP.
21. Sybil Stockdale to POW/MIA wives, August 10, 1966, box 2, SBSP.
22. Ibid.
23. Stockdale and Stockdale, In Love and War, 143.
24. Sybil Stockdale to POW/MIA wives, August 10, 1966, box 2, SBSP.
25. Sybil Stockdale, “1968: What Was Changing,” 5, box 3, SBSP.
26. James G. Andrews, USN Assistant Chief for Morale Services, to Mrs. Jeremiah Denton, November 7, 1966, Jeremiah Denton CACO file, collection of Mike Denton.
27. Jane Denton to Governor Harriman, n.d., Jeremiah Denton CACO file, collection of Mike Denton.
28. Bruce Henderson, “Dieter Dengler’s Great Escape from Laotian POW Camp,” HistoryNet, July 12, 2010, www
29. Jane Denton to Averell Harriman, n.d., Jeremiah Denton CACO file, collection of Mike Denton.
30. Stockdale Family Cookbook, JSSP.
31. Sherry Martin, in conversation with the author, January 30, 2016.
32. Stockdale and Stockdale, In Love and War, 51.
33. Sandy Dennison, in conversation with the author, March 9, 2016.
34. Karen Butler, remarks at Sybil Stockdale memorial service, Coronado, CA, November 14, 2015.
35. Sybil Stockdale, oral history interview with Steven L. Smith, June 8, 2000, 4, in Smith, “Reluctant Sorority.”
36. Sybil Stockdale, speech notes on “Six Stages of Being a POW Wife,” n.d., 1, JSSP.
37. Ibid.
38. “Operation Rolling Thunder,” History.com, accessed June 20, 2016, www
39. Stockdale, speech notes on “Six Stages of Being a POW Wife.”
40. Sherry Martin, in conversation with the author, January 30, 2016.
41. Jenny Connell Robertson, email message to author, September 26, 2017.
42. Debby Burns Henry, email messages to author, September 22 and 26, 2017.
43. Karen Butler, Debby Burns Henry, Patsy Crayton, Shirley Stark, and Jenny Connell Robertson, oral history interview with Heath Hardage Lee, January 16, 2016, REDASC.
44. Karen Butler, email message to author, September 24, 2017.
45. Stockdale and Stockdale, In Love and War, 225–26.
46. Friedan, Feminine Mystique, 1.
47. Captain Gordon I. Peterson, USN (Ret.), and David C. Taylor, “A Shield and a Sword: Intelligence Support to Communications with US POWs in Vietnam,” Studies in Intelligence 60, no. 1 (March 2016): 5; Stockdale and Stockdale, In Love and War, 141.
48. Sybil Stockdale diary, n.d., 64, box 11, folder 22, SBSP; Stockdale and Stockdale, In Love and War, 141.
49. Sybil Stockdale diary, n.d., 64, box 11, folder 22, SBSP; Jenny Connell Robertson, in conversation with the author, January 16, 2016; Debby Burns Henry, in conversation with the author, January 16, 2016.
50. Janie Tschudy, in conversation with the author, March 21, 2017.
51. Admiral B. J. Semmes to Jane Denton, March 27, 1967, Jeremiah Denton CACO file, collection of Mike Denton.
52. Grubb and Jose, You Are Not Forgotten, 71.