You must never confuse the faith that you will prevail in the end—which you can never afford to lose—with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be - Admiral James Stockdale Admiral Stockdale was a POW in Vietnam for 7 years, was tortured over 20 times and kept in a solitary 3' x 9' cell in leg irons. He created and enforced a system of conduct for prisoners pertaining to torture, secret communication, and behavior. When