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RIP to an American hero

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.MASSHOLE.
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Not many of you may know this name, but Louis Zamperini died today at the ripe old age of 97.

He competed in the 1936 Olympics in the 5000m finishing 8th as a teenager. However, more impressive is the fact that he fought in WWII in the Japanese theater as a pilot. During his time with the Navy, he was shot down in 1944 and survived 47 days in a life raft in the Pacific Ocean. He was later captured and sent to a POW camp in Japan.

You can read his story in the book Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption, which I highly recommend.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/04/arts/louis-zamperini-olympian-war-survivor-unbroken-dies.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&smid=tw-nytimes

RIP Mr. Zamperini.
Jul 3 2014 11:49AM
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Ski_the_east01
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The book is absolutely amazing. You would swear its fiction if it wasn't for the exhaustive amount of research Hillenbrand did. What that man lived through is overwhelming for even 100 lives let alone just one


one of the greatest lives ever lived
Jul 3 2014 12:06PM
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270on420out
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RIP. He was a really great man.
Jul 3 2014 12:32PM
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.MASSHOLE.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrjJbl7kRrI


I wonder if he got to see it.
Jul 10 2014 11:35AM
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