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Louis Zamperini: A Brief Summary And Analysis

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Louis Zamperini started on the road to eminence by overcoming his former torturers by visiting them and offering forgiveness. He had to travel all the way to Japan and to many places where the former war criminals were kept; most of them were kept in jail (Hillenbrand, 2014). One of the meetings that he sought was with his former enemy Mutsuhiro Watanabe also known as “The Bird” (Hillenbrand, 2014). After the war Louis Zamperini suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder (Louis Zamperini, 2016) and fell victim to depression and an unhealthy lifestyle. His wife, Cynthia Applewhite, convinced him to see a revival sermon by evangelist Billy Graham (Louis Zamperini, 2016). The first time he went he didn’t find anything that made it worth being

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